Happy Memorial Day Everyone!!!

I will be gone all day today with baseball at 11, cookout at 4, getting back probably about 10, then going riding until state curfew, and to my friends house. Tomorrow I might be on, but just in case, I wanted to wish you all a very Happy Memorial Day.

For the kids, have fun, for the adults, dont drink so much that happens and you end up :puke2: lol, have a good one all!

Happy Memorial day

REMEMBER OUR TROOPS AND REMEMBER TO TAKE TIME AND MONDAY AT 3:00 PM

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY to all!!! Remember all of our current and past troops!!!!

So many have given their lives so we can enjoy freedoms today (like BASEBALL.................)

GoGetEmTigers wrote:

REMEMBER OUR TROOPS AND REMEMBER TO TAKE TIME AND MONDAY AT 3:00 PM

Hey, there are the Memorial Day smilies!

Happy Memorial Day!

Was looking for a National Anthem video to link to, but couldn't find a good one on youtube (that I liked anyways).

(But in the process I found that Phil Wellman freak-out video... rosin bag grenades... an oldie but a goodie.)

From Wiki:

Following the end of the Civil War, many communities set aside a day to mark the end of the war or as a memorial to those who had died. Some of the places creating an early memorial day include Charleston, South Carolina; Boalsburg, Pennsylvania; Richmond, Virginia; Carbondale, Illinois; Columbus, Mississippi; many communities in Vermont; and some two dozen other cities and towns. These observances eventually coalesced around Decoration Day, honoring the Union dead, and the several Confederate Memorial Days.

According to Professor David Blight of the Yale University History Department, the first memorial day was observed in 1865 by liberated slaves at the historic race track in Charleston. The site was a former Confederate prison camp as well as a mass grave for Union soldiers who had died while captive. The freed slaves reinterred the dead Union soldiers from the mass grave to individual graves, fenced in the graveyard & built an entry arch declaring it a Union graveyard; a very daring thing to do in the South shortly after North's victory. On May 30 1886? the freed slaves returned to the spiffed up graveyard with flowers they'd picked from the countryside & decorated the individual gravesites, thereby creating the 1st Decoration Day. A parade with thousands of freed blacks and Union soldiers was followed by patriotic singing and a picnic.

The official birthplace of Memorial Day is Waterloo, New York. The village was credited with being the birthplace because it observed the day on May 5, 1866, and each year thereafter, and because it is likely that the friendship of General John Murray, a distinguished citizen of Waterloo, and General John A. Logan, who led the call for the day to be observed each year and helped spread the event nationwide, was a key factor in its growth.

General Logan had been impressed by the way the South honored their dead with a special day and decided the Union needed a similar day. Reportedly, Logan said that it was most fitting; that the ancients, especially the Greeks, had honored their dead, particularly their heroes, by chaplets of laurel and flowers, and that he intended to issue an order designating a day for decorating the grave of every soldier in the land, and if he could he would have made it a holiday.

Logan had been the principal speaker in a citywide memorial observation on April 29, 1866, at a cemetery in Carbondale, Illinois, an event that likely gave him the idea to make it a national holiday. On May 5, 1868, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, a veterans' organization, Logan issued a proclamation that "Decoration Day" be observed nationwide. It was observed for the first time on May 30 of the same year; the date was chosen because it was not the anniversary of a battle. The tombs of fallen Union soldiers were decorated in remembrance of this day.

Many of the states of the U.S. South refused to celebrate Decoration Day, due to lingering hostility towards the Union Army and also because there were very few veterans of the Union Army who lived in the South. A notable exception was Columbus, Mississippi, which on April 25, 1866 at its Decoration Day commemorated both the Union and Confederate casualties buried in its cemetery.


Troops at the Washington, D.C. Memorial Day parade, 1942.The alternative name of "Memorial Day" was first used in 1882, but did not become more common until after World War II, and was not declared the official name by Federal law until 1967 . On June 28, 1968, the United States Congress passed the Uniform Holidays Bill, which moved three holidays from their traditional dates to a specified Monday in order to create a convenient three-day weekend and for the first time recognized Columbus Day as a federal holiday. The holidays included Washington's Birthday (which evolved into Presidents' Day), Veterans Day, and Memorial Day. The change moved Memorial Day from its traditional May 30 date to the last Monday in May. The law took effect at the federal level in 1971 . After some initial confusion and unwillingness to comply at the state level, all fifty states adopted the measure within a few years, although Veterans Day was eventually changed back to its traditional date. Ironically, most corporate businesses no longer close on Columbus Day or Veterans Day, and an increasing number are staying open on President's Day as well. Memorial Day, however, has endured as one holiday during which most businesses stay closed because it marks the beginning of the "summer vacation season," as does neighboring Canada's Victoria Day, which occurs on the prior Monday.

Did you all hear about Nick Madaras, you should look him up and read about what he did.

gdennis59 wrote:

Did you all hear about Nick Madaras, you should look him up and read about what he did.

What a brave kid. It takes a lot of guts to join the army and screw anyone who'd talk about them like they were conned somehow by the advertisements or recruiters. That's not just ignorant, anyone who'd say that is minimizing the courage it takes to do that kind of job.

Memorial Day Song & Video



Don't mess with America! Courtesy of the Red White and Blue

This video is a tribute to the supreme spirit the United States
showed after 9-11 and to their gallant determination to hunt down and
kill e'vry terrorist bastard in the world. The music is "Courtesy of
the Red, White and Blue" by Toby Keith, the pics are from Google and
Defend America



God Bless the U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood

Operation Gratitude - God Bless the USA



true meaning of memorial day



A Rememberance Day Memorial Video
A Saving Private Ryan Memorial vid dedicated to those many brave souls that fought and died in World War II.



(My dad was a survivor of WW II and I will always thank him for his service! The Iraq war is a small battle compared to what our naton went through, for freedom, in WW I & II! - gogetemtigers)

Whether you are for or against the current war - just remember our troops please. Freedom is never free! Just ask the people of Afghanistan and Iraq! They sure as hell were not free. And on 9/11 - the people who died in the plane crashes and World Trade center would sure as heck not want us to forget their deaths! War WAS DECLARED ON US! We could be a pansy nation and just say "oh well", or get the insane people who started it and still today want us all dead! Whether we want to admit it or not, this is a religious war where Radical Islam has decided that anyone who does not accept Islam is to be killed! (As per the Koran)

Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden believes that the restoration of Sharia law will set things right in the Muslim world, and that all other ideologies—"pan-Arabism, socialism, communism, democracy"—must be opposed. He is working on bringing Sharia Law to many places in America. Just read the news!

So, I hope this war is over SOON, but please remember it is America's freedom that really is at stake. Please pray for our troops and that this insanity is defeated.

Happy Memorial Day everyone! I wish the Tigers were playing a day game like they should on holidays. I'm going to go over my neighbor's house for a barbecue and then fall asleep watching the Tigers game tonight.

They should be playing a day game in Anaheim

At least the Tigers are playing a game on Labor Day.


Thanks to that stupid rain out against the Yankees