What's everyone doing for Memorial Day?

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We are busy with family in the area.....
 
Kids are at grandma's. Wife and I had a date tonight and we are going whitewater rafting/horseback riding.
 
Rest and relaxation sounds good, but I am taking this week off, which means that the slate of activities will make me so tired that I will need to go back to work to get some rest. :D

Other than that, we'll probably cook out with my family and enjoy the peaceful country hollow that God has blessed us with.  Mom and a brother live on one side of me, and another brother on the other side, so getting together ain't real difficult.
 
ALAYMAN said:
Rest and relaxation sounds good, but I am taking this week off, which means that the slate of activities will make me so tired that I will need to go back to work to get some rest. :D

Other than that, we'll probably cook out with my family and enjoy the peaceful country hollow that God has blessed us with.  Mom and a brother live on one side of me, and another brother on the other side, so getting together ain't real difficult.
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My grandparents lived 3 houses down from us. My uncle lived next door, my aunt was 1 house between granny & grandpa if something happened everyone knew about it.......we left when I was 10 but those were good forming years of the importance of family. My aunt passed away suddenly and she was the queen bee that held all of us together. She was a wonderful pastors wife the night before she died she took the young girls out for pizza. I was blessed to have many cousins around me those are treasured moments. Enjoy every moment
 
I will have the privilege of spending the day with a retired Navy captain and an AF major who flies an F-15E. 
 
Not much, Picnic, maybe some swimming.  Eating some burgers.  Buying a lear jet.  Smell my armpits. (just seeing if anyone is reading this.
 
We traditionally visit a national cemetery for the memorial with casons, horse with empty boots and 21 gun salute.  We then walk the cemetery looking at markers from Civil War to Iraq.  Our family stops to pledge at the flag then pray for our nation, leaders, soldiers and churches.  Grill out with family and enjoy the day.  This year will include a trip to a family grave who passed during this year.
 
I just sent you an pm........hugs from me  :) I hope you're feeling better soon.
 
Sleep in. Play computer games. Grill a burger. Drink some beer (got a fridge full of New Belgium Ranger IPA). Watch a movie.

Not sure I'll get to all of that, but sounds like a plan.  :P
 
Sitting at home reading. And trying to eat some throughout the day, as I'm trying to put weight back on and get over an ulcerative colitis flare-up.
 
Celebrating freedom! Breakfast and mall shopping with my girl, then a BBQ at the folks, then an evening with my tall, dark and handsome.

God is so good.
 
thanking God for our country and listening to a few sermons on youtube by B.G. Buchanan
grilling out
peach cobbler & ice cream  :D
watching tennis
household chores
maybe my oldest daughter and my grandson will stop in...
making up w/ hubby for yesterday's fight lol  :o
 
I just had my hot dog(s).  Three Nathan's Famous with sauerkraut and mustard.  Normally I prefer Hebrew National, but I was in the mood to mix it up. 

Later I'll have my beer.    Even now maybe.  Shiner.

 
aleshanee said:
Torrent v.3 said:
Not much, Picnic, maybe some swimming.  Eating some burgers.  Buying a lear jet.  Smell my armpits. (just seeing if anyone is reading this.
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well...  hopefully that last part won;t be the highlight of your day... ??? ...  but just in case... ... . i hope you realize that right guard goes under the left arm too.... ;D... ... .  j/k... ... .. ..  hope you;re having a wonderful weekend... . :D.... ..
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It was good. It rained, but we went for a walk and grilled burgers, and I cleaned house from 4am till 9pm intermittently.  I really got a lot of stuff organized.  I hate messes.

How was yours Aleshanee?

Oh, yeah, and I shared a couple of adult beverages with my son.
 
Castor Muscular said:
I just had my hot dog(s).  Three Nathan's Famous with sauerkraut and mustard.  Normally I prefer Hebrew National, but I was in the mood to mix it up. 

Later I'll have my beer.    Even now maybe.  Shiner.
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Dude.

I had Nathan's Famous for the first time yesterday. Needless to say, my hotdog world was rocked.
 
aleshanee said:
we will be spending the day at the punchbowl national memorial cemetery of the pacific .... or at least most of the day.... the ceremonies are in the morning... followed by a heavy 21 cannon salute and a fly over by fighter jets.... . then we usually walk around the cemetery for a few hours after that....my dad has friends buried there ...... . . then in the evening we usually go to the lantern lighting ceremony at ala moana beach park... . . there thousands of floating lanterns are sent out to sea with the tide just after sunset... ....  both ceremonies are very special and beautiful to see..... ... . . ....
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One of my favorite places we visited while in Hawaii.  I definitely would go back again if I ever make it back to Hawaii. 
 
aleshanee said:
Torrent v.3 said:
aleshanee said:
Torrent v.3 said:
Not much, Picnic, maybe some swimming.  Eating some burgers.  Buying a lear jet.  Smell my armpits. (just seeing if anyone is reading this.
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well...  hopefully that last part won;t be the highlight of your day... ??? ...  but just in case... ... . i hope you realize that right guard goes under the left arm too.... ;D... ... .  j/k... ... .. ..  hope you;re having a wonderful weekend... . :D.... ..
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It was good. It rained, but we went for a walk and grilled burgers, and I cleaned house from 4am till 9pm intermittently.  I really got a lot of stuff organized.  I hate messes.

How was yours Aleshanee?

Oh, yeah, and I shared a couple of adult beverages with my son.
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it was good ... thanks for asking me about it... . coz there is something that has been bothering me about since yesterday... . and this gives me a chance to say something about it..... .. . although we had a very good day there....  many of the things the punchbowl national cemetery is known for on memorial day didn;t happen... .. . the traditional 21 gun salute by heavy howitzers was done with rifles this year... and there was no fighter jet fly over... .  the absence of both was blamed on budget cuts ... .. it didn;t matter that much to us coz it;s not the reason we go there anyway.. ..  my dad has a friend from high school who died in vietnam and is buried there.... but more recently a few marine corps and navy medics that he trained in the last few years..(guys younger than me)...  have also been buried there after having been killed in either iraq or afghanistan... ...

for many decades now soldiers who died in our countries service have been honored by 21 gun salutes and by the military jet flyovers performing the missing man maneuver....( the gun salutes are usually done with rifles...  punchowl has always been a rare exception where field artillery was used.... but switching to rifles this year was fine.... not many people minded that... ...) .but this year the jet fly over was completely missing...  and most people didn;t know it wasn;t going to happen until the ceremonies were completely over.... .

. if you have ever been to a memorial day service then you know how special that part of the service is..... it;s a very fitting tribute to those who have fallen .....  it;s always held at the very end and leaves even people who have never served in the military in tears..... .but apparently obama thinks it;s not worth a little extra aviation fuel to pay our fallen heros that final tribute... ... and... apparanetly he also doesn;t even think it;s worth explaning it those of us who have come to expect that every year... before hand....  ....


now the lantern lighting and floating ceremony was awesome... :D.. .  very beautiful... .  but we ended up getting there a little late coz i am having med reactions ... i had to have a out patient proceedure done thursday and the pain meds i am on coz of it started interacting with my usual stuff...  but i;m ok... . i just took an extra long nap and couldn;t get up in time to make it before the crowd got there... . but it was ok... .. we still saw it and was very special as it always is... ....    :)...

here is a link to the event and it has a slide show too to show some of the pictures... .. . . when we first started going to that event it was unoffical and not many people took part.... . this year there were almost 50 thousand in attendance... :D..

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/22401023/15th-annual-lantern-floating-ceremony-to-be-held-monday-evening


but anyway.. . . sorry for the rant....... i just don;t think memorial day should be skimped on like that... .. . especially at a place like punchbowl....
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When I was a kid, my father was in the county's Serviceman's burial Detail, and they marched in the Memorial Day Parade every year.  He was the organizer every year, and was the center man in the 7 man line for the 21 gun salute.  As a kid, when he told me what it meant, it became a very special time to me.  We lived in a remote area, so the flyover was rare, probably only 3 times in the 15 years I remember.  The most memorable was the year it rained the entire time.  I still choke up thinking of it. I was about 8 and because of the rain, about 1/3 of the parade participants dropped out.  But the Serviceman's Burial Detail marched.  And I watched my Dad march down our Main St in pouring rain, drenched to the bone.  I was shivering but my Mom whispered to me something like "hundreds of thousands of men died to give us our freedom, the least we can do is stand in the rain and honor them"  When my Dad got home that day, he told us for the first time of his time in Korea.  He spoke candidly and openly about the cold and rain and lack of medical care in the field, and I still cry when I remember the story of the men in his division who were killed and who he helped to bring their bodies home.  There were 2 men from my hometown, and he took us to their gravesites the next weekend,
 
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