Good Morning...Memorial Day

[Okla-homey]

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The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo'
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few;
On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread;
But Glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.

[Jerk]

I hear the ACLU is going to sue to get "Uknown but to God" removed from the tomb.

[Okla-homey]

I hear the ACLU is going to sue to get "Uknown but to God" removed from the tomb.

Will they attempt to get the crosses and Stars of David taken off the half a million government provided grave markers too?

[picasso]

anyone see the special on PBS about the Arlington cemetary? they also profiled the honor guard.
I had the pleasure a few years ago to be there on Veterans Day. We got there an hour or so after Clinton gave a speech. It was awesome to see changing of the guard.

[Jerk]

Will they attempt to get the crosses and Stars of David taken off the half a million government provided grave markers too?

Yes, they want them replaced with the Hammer and Sickle.

[Rogue]

Last time I watched the Old Guard ceremony there, they stated that there would probably not be any "unknown soldiers" in the future thanks to DNA testing. I think that the remains of one of the soldiers was reunited with his family in recent years. Wait, let me go look that up before I throw it on out there as a fact. The old memory ain't what it once was.

[Rogue]

Got it.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/vietnam.htm


DNA testing has proven that the remains which were buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery are those of United States Air Force
First Lieutenant Michael Joseph Blassie.
Lieutenant Blassie's remains were returned to his family on Friday, July 10, 1998, and were buried in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday, July 11, 1998.