Happy Memorial Day

**Dave Smith** · 05-25-2008, 04:07 PM

To all Veterans ... THANK YOU for your service.

These pics were taken at the "Trail of Honor", in Jackson Mississippi, last weekend.
I respectfully submit them as a salute to all verterans

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Thank you for viewing and remembering
those who gave their all..

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**Frog** · 05-25-2008, 08:34 PM

Thankyou, Dave. Too many have forgotten what this day is for and only think of it as a weekend to go camping or have a barbecue.
I'm planning on getting up early tomorrow to try to get some decent shots at a local 'old soldiers home' cemetary.

**Liz** · 05-26-2008, 09:27 AM

Thank you for this thread, Dave.

I join you in honoring all veterans today with a remembrance in my thoughts and prayers.

Liz

**unclebuck13** · 05-26-2008, 09:33 AM

Thank you past, present and future service men and women for what you do!

**Addies Granddaddy** · 05-26-2008, 09:47 AM

Well spoken.

**ken1953** · 05-26-2008, 09:59 AM

As a vet I thank you for starting this thread Dave and I thank all my brother and sister vets for their current, past and future service. And, in memorium, all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, I especially honor them on this, their special day. I would also like to pay special memorium to my father whom I lost in 1964. A US Navy Veteran who lost his life not in war but served honorably in WWII.
His service was at the end of WWII and he got out as a Seaman. Mine was at the end of VietNam and I also got out as a Seaman.

Long may the waves wash ashore on the beaches of a free America, so that our brave soldiers and sailors did not give their lives in vain.

**Asylum Steve** · 05-26-2008, 10:43 AM

A Happy Memorial Day to everyone. It was a year ago that Lake & Sumter Style Magazine ran a feature story on Florida National Cemetery that featured my photos:

http://www.ocalastyle.com/styleadmin...=745&zoneid=39

I had shot the piece the month before, making three visits to nearby Bushnell and spending quite a bit of time there, much of it in solitude. It was an emotional and spiritual event for me, especially because my father is buried there as well.

The majority of the veterans interned at FNC were not killed in combat (my father included), but the connection to those who were and gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country is ever present.

**Frog** · 05-26-2008, 11:54 AM

Some very nice shots showing respect!
From a local cemetary....if 12 miles is local.

**Axle** · 05-26-2008, 01:25 PM

**Dave Smith** · 05-26-2008, 10:41 PM

My thanks to all who joined in (or viewed) this thread.
Thank you for taking the time to stop and remember
those who served their nation and gave their all.

"At the going down of the sun,
and in the morning,
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM."

**Loupey** · 05-27-2008, 11:18 AM

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**Old Timer** · 05-28-2008, 06:18 AM

Wonderful tribute thread. Makes me grateful to be an American and to have fellow country men and women that were will to make sacrifices so that I can enjoy all that is great about this country. Wish I had an adequate image to share from Memorial Day. Here is a tribute to returning veteran of the Iraq war that I took a couple of weekends ago. Thanks for the sacrifices.