Memorial Day

 
Happy Memorial Day!

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving the United States Armed Forces. It is observeds on the last Monday of May.

Painting by Ken Scott.

Happy Memorial Day

 

Pvt. Wm P. Fulcher

May 17, 1893,

Killed in France

Aug. 3, 1918.

Battle of Amiens, (August 8–11, 1918), World War I battle that marked the beginning of what came to be known as the “hundred days,” a string of Allied offensive successes on the Western Front that led to the collapse of the German army and the end of the war.

Thank you to all those that have given their lives in the service of our country.

Happy Memorial Day

 Happy Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

Thank you to all those who have given their lives in the service of our country.

Photography by Jan Riser.

Memorial Day 2013

Happy Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

Thank you to all those who have given their lives in the service of our country.

IN MEMORY

OF 

SGT JOE H SIKES

JUNE 2, 1917

LOST HIS LIFE IN SOUTH PACIFIC AREA

OCT 24, 1944

HIS VALOR LIVES ON

Photograph by Jan Riser.

Memorial Day

Thank you to all the men and women who have given their lives in the service of our country. We also thank their families.

Memorial Day is a day for remembering and honoring military personnel who died in the service of their country, particularly those who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in battle.

 

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

Memorial Day

Thank you to all the men and women who have given their lives in the service of our country. We also thank their families.

Memorial Day is a day for remembering and honoring military personnel who died in the service of their country, particularly those who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in battle.

Memorial Day 2020

Happy Memorial Day

Thank you to all those who have given their lives in the service of our country.

IN MEMORY

OF 

SGT JOE H SIKES

JUNE 2, 1917

LOST HIS LIFE IN SOUTH PACIFIC AREA

OCT 24, 1944

HIS VALOR LIVES ON

Photograph by Jan Riser.

Memorial Day

Thank you to all those who have given their lives to the service of our country.

Memorial Day is a day for remembering and honoring military personnel who died in the service of their country, particularly those who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in battle. 

While those who died are also remembered, Veterans Day is the day set aside to thank and honor ALL those who served honorably in the military — in wartime or peacetime. In fact, Veterans Day is largely intended to thank LIVING veterans for their service, to acknowledge that their contributions to our national security are appreciated, and to underscore the fact that all those who served — not only those who died — have sacrificed and done their duty.

Copy from The Washington Post.

Memorial Day 2018

Thank you to all the men and women who lost their lives in the service of our country. We also thank their families.

The gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery are decorated by U.S. flags on Memorial Day weekend.

Image from here.

In Flanders Fields by John McCrea

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

Memorial Day Blessings

Thank you to all those who have given their lives to the service of our country.

Memorial Day is a day for remembering and honoring military personnel who died in the service of their country, particularly those who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in battle. 

While those who died are also remembered, Veterans Day is the day set aside to thank and honor ALL those who served honorably in the military — in wartime or peacetime. In fact, Veterans Day is largely intended to thank LIVING veterans for their service, to acknowledge that their contributions to our national security are appreciated, and to underscore the fact that all those who served — not only those who died — have sacrificed and done their duty.

Copy from The Washington Post with photo by Jan Riser.

Memorial Day 2016

Thank you to all the men and women who lost their lives in the service of our country. We also thank their families.

On February 23, 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal shot this photo of five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising a U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi, the highest point on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. The battle, one of the bloodiest in Marine Corps history, began on February 19, 1945, when the Americans invaded the heavily fortified island; four days later, they seized it and planted a small flag atop Mt. Suribachi. However, later that same day, the flag was ordered replaced with a much larger one that could be seen by troops across the island and on ships offshore. Rosenthal’s photo shows this second raising of the Stars and Stripes. The combat photographer subsequently was accused of staging the dramatic picture, but he denied the charge and eyewitnesses backed him up. The widely reproduced photo became a powerful patriotic symbol and went on to win a Pulitzer Prize and serve as the model for the Marine Corps War Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery.

Three of the Marines in the photo were killed in action on Iwo Jima (the battle didn’t officially end until March 26, 1945), while the three surviving flag-raisers were sent back to the U.S., where they were treated as heroes and appeared at rallies across the country to promote the sale of war bonds.

Franklin Sousley, one of the Marines that raised the flag was from my hometown. His Mother and Grandparents were our neighbors. 

There is another memorial in the cemetery in Elizaville, KY, Fleming County, that is next to Franklin's grave. We have our gravesites there  along with our deceased family members.

 

Charles Wallingford 

IN MEMORY

OF

DWIGHT H. FORD

PVT. 1ST CL MARINE CORPS

MAY 31, 1921

FEB 27, 1945

HE DIED I THE SERVICE OF 

HIS COUNTRY IN IWO JIMA

Photo and copy from History.
Tombstone photo by Jan Riser. Additional photos and copy supplied by Charlie Wallingford.

Happy Memorial Day

Memorial Day honors all those who have died serving our country. Thank You to all those who have served.

IN LOVING MEMORY

OF

ROBERT CECIL WOODALL

SON OF 

J.T. & LUCY WOODALL

BORN AUG. 19, 1909

MISSING IN ACTION

IN NORTH AFRICAN AREA

NEAR FAID PASS

FEB. 17. 1943

IN LOVING MEMORY 

OF

LIEUTENTANT COMMANDER

LAURICE ALDRIDGE TATUM U.S.N.R.

BORN DEC. 7, 1894

DIED SEPT. 15, 1942 ABOARD U.S.S

WASP IN BATTLE OF THE SOLOMON

ISLANDS.

...ON JULY 3, 1943 AN ESCORT SHIP DESIGNATED TO BEAR HIS NAME WAS CHRISTENED

THE U.S.S TATUM

IN MEMORY

OF 

SGT JOE H SIKES

JUNE 2, 1917

LOST HIS LIFE IN SOUTH PACIFIC AREA

OCT 24, 1944

HIS VALOR LIVES ON

All photographs were taken in Chambers County Alabama on May 23, 2015 at the Lafayette Cemetery (or Westview) and the Milltown Cemetery by Jan Riser.

Memorial Day

Center of Omaha Beach where US forces landed June 6th 1944

Memorial erected on the 60th anniversary of DDay

The invasion sites and the Cemetery are a sobering experience.  The scale of that operation was huge.  The landing zone is almost 50 miles wide.  Airborne landings were 5 to 8 miles back in.  The allied Air Forces blew up Normandy  supporting the invasion, and the natives of Normandy still love us.  I doubt our country today has the moral fortitude to mount that kind of an effort again.  

Thank you to all our men and women who have served our country.

Copy by Heinz Ahlers with photo by Lois Ahlers.

Happy Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

Thank you to all those who died in the service to our country and to their families.

Photo from Wikipedia.

Joe Mills at Perryville Battlefield

 This is Alan Howeller's house on the Perryville Battlefield that he restored. We were passing through on our way to Danville for an auction and went through the battlefield. His house was taken over by the Confederate Army and used as a command center. You get an eerie feeling driving through the hills of the actual battlefield.

Photo supplied by Joe Mills. This was suppose to run on Memorial Day.

Memorial Day

Thank you to all the men and women who have served in the armed forces and for those who have given their lives in the service of our country.


Photographed at the Cades Cove Methodist Church in 2011 by Jan Riser. The church was established in 1860.

Memorial Day

Thank you to all the men and women who have given their lives in the service of our country.

American Revolution Patriots

George Washinton with his Aid de Camp, Tench Tilghman on far right, and Lafayette center at Yorktown by Charles Wilson Peale, 1784

Tench Tilghman (December 25, 1744–April 18, 1786) was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary war. He served as an aide de camp to General George Washington, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Tench Tilghman's swords

Charles Thomson (November 29, 1729 – August 16, 1824) was a Patriot leader in Philadelphia during the American Revolution and the secretary of the Continental Congress (1774–1789) throughout its 

existence.

Preliminary version of the Great Seal of the United States by Charles Thomson, the Secretary of Congress. Three separate committees had tried and failed to come up with a suitable design for a national seal which satisfied the Continental Congress; Thomson then took elements from all the preceding designs and came up with this version, which is very close to the final design. William Barton made some further refinements before the final report was submitted. 

Jan's relative is Tench Tilghman and Art's relative is Charles Thomson. Copy on Tench Tilghman from Wikipedia. Copy and photos of Charles Thomson from Wikipedia.