Memorial Day, and war is always hell. I have learned so much these past two years of ancestral research, some of it tragic but all of it helpful and healing. My Uncle Jordan served in the US Army for 3 years, from age 18-21, fighting Hitler's troops with the Allied forces on the Western Front in Europe. He died from wounds received in battle on April 25, 1945, that battle liberating a small town in Czechoslovakia. Long-range communications during the time were laborious at best, and this newspaper article documents what his parents, my grandparents, had to experience 2 weeks later:
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The cost of war is paid for in the lives of our youth, and shared with their families. We have reduced the number of deaths, but not the number of casualties. We are just beginning to understand the very real trauma of the survivors. Sorry for your loss.
glennlab
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May 25, 2020
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Thank you, and more than anything else it explains the lifelong grieving of my grandparents. After losing their eldest son (hit by a car) just 8 yrs earlier, I think it broke them. They packed up out of WV and landed in LA, Beverly Hillbillies style.
@tinkercreek My father died when he was 21. I never realized how hard it was on my grandparents until my grandfather died. We had to take my grandmother to my father's grave where she cried for a good half hour, before we could do my granfather's graveside service. Losing a child has to be the worst pain that a parent can expirience. One that I hope we can limit as much as possible.
This what happens when the people at the top have no idea what they are doing, cannot come to find anyone who is smart enough to make any assessment at all, and do everything they can to make sure everything is a fucked up as possible. To make sure all is ever worse than this it is the vet who is blamed for losing. What a waste of time, effort, and resources.
dalefvictor
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May 25, 2020
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Decorate The Graves Day.
...religion is wishing we can praise the dead so they hear us see us even for the first time as we never knew them alive
Larry68Feminist
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May 25, 2020
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Veterans Day must be a nightmare..
Varn
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May 25, 2020
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I think that for anyone who was close to a life lost in war, instead of coming home.
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