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Memorial Day 2015.
May 25 marked the one of the 3 days that celebrate most within the Armed Force, beside the birth of each branch and the Veteran day, today is the memorial day.
What made the memorial day special is that it does not just celebrate soldier, sailor and airmen for their service, but also a day which we remember the fallen. For normal folks, this is a 3 days long weekends that comes in with a national shopping trips that either tops at or above the Easter Long weekend or the Black Friday. But for soldier and veteran alike, this day mark another meaning to them. The legacy of the fallen.
Soldier fought and died in battle, for their country, that's what they know when they answer the call, this is what you expect when you sign that little 4, 6 or 8 years contract. But for those of that who die, there are a linger of relationship for all of us, and it is because of this connection, we, as a soldier know what kind of pain and hardship gone thru with the mind of others, and those who lucky enough to see home again, are given a burden to told the story for those who can't so their memory will live on, and we will never forget those who dies.
And this is why we celebrate the memorial day.
The Soldier
IF I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Rupert Brooke
@AMCA @KAL-EL @WebMaster @F-22Raptor @gambit @C130 @Peter C @
May 25 marked the one of the 3 days that celebrate most within the Armed Force, beside the birth of each branch and the Veteran day, today is the memorial day.
What made the memorial day special is that it does not just celebrate soldier, sailor and airmen for their service, but also a day which we remember the fallen. For normal folks, this is a 3 days long weekends that comes in with a national shopping trips that either tops at or above the Easter Long weekend or the Black Friday. But for soldier and veteran alike, this day mark another meaning to them. The legacy of the fallen.
Soldier fought and died in battle, for their country, that's what they know when they answer the call, this is what you expect when you sign that little 4, 6 or 8 years contract. But for those of that who die, there are a linger of relationship for all of us, and it is because of this connection, we, as a soldier know what kind of pain and hardship gone thru with the mind of others, and those who lucky enough to see home again, are given a burden to told the story for those who can't so their memory will live on, and we will never forget those who dies.
And this is why we celebrate the memorial day.
The Soldier
IF I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Rupert Brooke
@AMCA @KAL-EL @WebMaster @F-22Raptor @gambit @C130 @Peter C @
