Greetings to you too. Happy seems to be the wrong word for a solemn holiday. When I was a kid the church had a veteran's association, every Memorial Day they gathered across the street and had a 21 gun salute. First time I ever heard real gunfire, so different from what you heard on movies and TV. The only ones shooting in my old neighborhood now are gang bangers. I'll be off shortly to pay my respects at the cemetery.
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Greetings to you too. Happy seems to be the wrong word for a solemn holiday. When I was a kid the church had a veteran's association, every Memorial Day they gathered across the street and had a 21 gun salute. First time I ever heard real gunfire, so different from what you heard on movies and TV. The only ones shooting in my old neighborhood now are gang bangers. I'll be off shortly to pay my respects at the cemetery.
have to agree on the Happy, but we all know what you mean.
And, as I always say, Ford got it, especially about the frontier Army, much like Frederic Remington.
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