Memorial Day Weekend is here , and summer has officially kicked off but while we are running around buying food and beer, or outdoors grilling, or paying through the nose for gas in order to drive somewhere, let us not forget what the Holiday means. While we are enjoying a three-day weekend, there are many members of our US Military who are halfway around the world, away from their families and friends, risking their own lives.There will be many cookouts and other gatherings this weekend across Delmarva and the entire country who will be missing one or more family members, because they are in Iraq, or Germany, or out at sea.There are also many others who lost their lives who have proudly served their country in the past. That, my fellow Americans, is what this Holiday is truly about.
I also wanted to mention that forty years ago this week, the USS Scorpion disappeared with 99 men aboard and was later officially listed as missing in June by the Navy. About six months later the Skipjack class nuclear submarine and her crews remains were found deep in the Atlantic Ocean.the submersible was based in Norfolk,, Virginia.
Let us all take the time this weekend to remember these brave sailors and others who lost their lives serving their country.
Two local heroes to remember on this Memorial day:
ReplyDelete1. SSG Michael McMullen (Salisbury Fire Dept.) - passed away January 10, 2006 from wounds recieved while treating a fellow soldier after an IED explosion in Iraq. SSG McMullen saved the life of another Soldier, while laying his own down for all of US.
2. SSgt Walter F. "Trae" Cohee III - Mardela Springs -
passed on January 19, 2002 when a Marine CH-53E crashed in a remote region 60 kilometers south of Bagram in Northern Afghanistan.
I wish everyone a Happy and Enjoyable holiday. Please take a moment to think of the Families of these two brave men, and the many more families, who are without thier loved ones on this day of rememberance.
Semper Fidelis,
Cpl Ian D. Insley, USMC
Al Asad Iraq
Thanks Corporal!
ReplyDeleteWell said, Cpl Insley and a big Semper Fi to you and your fellow Marines in harms way! I would be here with you, if the commandant would allow an aged Marine on board!
ReplyDeleteA. Goetz, CWO, USMC (Ret)
I served in the Navy and in SUBMARINES. Nothing against the posts and pictures of marines. My Comments as a SUBMARINER one a member of the SILENT Service were never posted. Thanks for saying the h**l with you guys that fought quietly down deep under the surface. THANKS for nothing. A Member of the SILENT SERVICE
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