Showing posts with label Memorial Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memorial Day. Show all posts
Monday, May 25, 2026
Monday, May 26, 2025
Memorial Day 2025
Memorial Day
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Today is Memorial Day, when we honor U.S. military personnel who died while serving our country. Above, Dan Lurie and his brother Morris. Dan, at left, won 2nd place in the Mr. America contest. Morris, at right, was in the Army in World War II and was killed in the invasion of Anzio, Italy in 1944.
Above is the Navy pre-flight school photo of Lowell William Saxton. He was a Navy pilot in World War II and was killed on June 14, 1943. I am not showing these photos to mock these men – I think there is nothing shameful about them – but to honor them.
This statue, called The Spirit of American Youth Rising From the Waves, is in the American Military Cemetery at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France. Over 9000 men who were killed in the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 are buried there.
A rear view of that statue. Today we honor those men and all the others who gave their lives for our country.
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