You died so that we could live in safety and enjoy our freedom, and I'm sorry for what they've done to your country. I'm sorry that so many people don't value your life...
Arlington Cemetery is running out of space. One way officials are looking to address the problem is by limiting the number of service members who will be eligible for burial at the national cemetery.
Last year, Acting Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy announced the cemetery’s new eligibility requirements will limit burials to service members killed in action, former POWs, and prestigious figures such as Purple Heart recipients, presidents and vice presidents.
People eligible for aboveground inurnment include World War II veterans, armed forces retirees ineligible for interment, veterans who served a minimum of two years on active duty and who served in combat, and veterans who did not serve in combat but who made “significant contributions” to national security as a government official.
The cemetery will reserve 1,000 empty grave sites for current and future Medal of Honor recipients.
“To keep Arlington National Cemetery open and active well into the future means we have to make some tough decisions that restrict the eligibility. Nearly all of the 22 million living armed forces members and veterans are eligible for less than 95,000 remaining burial spaces within these hallowed grounds,”
- Karen Durham-Aguilera,
Arlington National Cemetery
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His story is here:
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My father (left) and his brother, the 'Uncle Bob'
I never got the chance to meet.
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Medal Of Honor Recipient Audie Murphy’s WWII Uniform And Ribbons on view at the
Gettysburg Museum of History
Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, receiving every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism.
Murphy received the Medal of Honor for valor demonstrated at the age of 19 for single-handedly holding off an entire company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, then leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition. Audie Murphy received the Medal Of Honor and was considered “The most decorated U. S. soldier of WWII. He later wrote a book about his experience and played himself in the Hollywood movie based on the book. Murphy became a sucessful actor.
This uniform was obtained from the family and was restored by The Museum. The autographed photo shown was inscribed for his first wife actress Wanda Hendrix. It say’s “Good Luck Skip and Lots Of Love Soldier” “Skip” was Audie’s name for Wanda Hendrix and “Soldier” was Hendrix’s name for Audie Murphy.
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Gettysburg, PA, July 3, 1863 - During the Confederate attack on the Union Center at Gettysburg, the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry attacks the left flank...
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Meet the first Medal of Honor recipient: Army Pvt. Jacob Parrott
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90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18. Never voted. Never loved a woman, or owned a home.
They gave their lives fighting Hitler and the Nazis, so today's kids can call everyone they don't like Hitler and Nazis. Think about that.
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Whatever happened to Rolling Thunder?
This is Rolling Thunder founder Sgt. Artie Muller. He's pictured here at the start of the Rolling Thunder 2017 Ride/Parade in Washington DC. This guy is a bad-ass in a good way.
600,000 - that's correct - SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND bikers rode to support and remember service members MIA and KIA.
Did you see one single report about this on the news - anywhere - this weekend? I didn't. But I coulda seen four cagillion hours of talking heads talking about talking heads talking about Russian collisions, Trump's taxes, tranny kindergarten kids and other nonsense.
600,000 veterans and patriots and no one gives a shit.
Shame on all of us for allowing the media
to do this to us.
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That's your host at home on leave back in '72. Ya know how they say everybody looks better in uniform? Well - this disproves that idiom. Juss' sayin'...
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As a 23-year-old army medic, Ray Lambert saved countless lives in Normandy, despite being wounded. Now 99, he recently co-wrote a book called "Every Man A Hero."
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Yours truly again striking a world-beater pose.
'I is such a dangerous man, isn't I?'
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Periodically I read about units formed of the most common of men, who perform the most heroic feats imaginable and I wonder how they did this. It finally occurred to me that each one probably had a thought similar of "Not on my watch! We will not fail because of me. WE WILL NOT FAIL BECAUSE OF ME!" When you have a group of like-minded people all pulling together for a common goal, and some or all have this same mindset, no task is impossible to accomplish.
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