(05-30-2021 07:30 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  If you've never visited Arlington National Cemetery, I highly recommend it.

It's truly awesome in the truest sense of the word. You could literally spend the whole day there and not even notice the time.

We just happened to stumble in right at the exact time to see a changing of the guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier. It was incredible.

The highlight of my history loving sons' day? Kennedy memorial? No.

Seeing the grave of Omar Bradley.

(05-30-2021 09:17 PM)QSECOFR Wrote:  Until my mother passed away, she always called what we now call Memorial Day, Decoration Day since that was the original name of the holiday. The name was changed in an effort to make southerners accept the holiday since Decoration Day was a northern holiday started after the Civil War. People went to the gravesites of the fallen to decorate the gravesites with flags, bunting, and GAR (grand army of the republic) signs.

When I was a kid, every year we went to the gravesite of my grandmother’s Uncle Gus. He lost his leg during the civil war and passed away circa 1900. Each of my brothers and me would post a small U.S. flag at his gravesite. To this day, I do the same thing for my father who fought in WWII and was awarded a silver star as well as 5 bronze stars.

BTW, I have friends in Virginia that still refer to the Civil War as “The War of Northern Aggression”. Some people hold grudges for a LONG time.

(05-31-2021 04:20 AM)doss2 Wrote:  

(05-30-2021 09:17 PM)QSECOFR Wrote:  Until my mother passed away, she always called what we now call Memorial Day, Decoration Day since that was the original name of the holiday. The name was changed in an effort to make southerners accept the holiday since Decoration Day was a northern holiday started after the Civil War. People went to the gravesites of the fallen to decorate the gravesites with flags, bunting, and GAR (grand army of the republic) signs.

When I was a kid, every year we went to the gravesite of my grandmother’s Uncle Gus. He lost his leg during the civil war and passed away circa 1900. Each of my brothers and me would post a small U.S. flag at his gravesite. To this day, I do the same thing for my father who fought in WWII and was awarded a silver star as well as 5 bronze stars.

BTW, I have friends in Virginia that still refer to the Civil War as “The War of Northern Aggression”. Some people hold grudges for a LONG time.

Calling the 1861-64 war a "Civil War" is a Northern thing and perhaps not meeting of the definition which is "a war between citizens of the same country".

Calling it The War Between the State is more accurate, but it was the War of Northern Aggression. Many southerners call it the later.

(05-31-2021 08:25 AM)bearcat54 Wrote:  

(05-31-2021 04:20 AM)doss2 Wrote:  

(05-30-2021 09:17 PM)QSECOFR Wrote:  Until my mother passed away, she always called what we now call Memorial Day, Decoration Day since that was the original name of the holiday. The name was changed in an effort to make southerners accept the holiday since Decoration Day was a northern holiday started after the Civil War. People went to the gravesites of the fallen to decorate the gravesites with flags, bunting, and GAR (grand army of the republic) signs.

When I was a kid, every year we went to the gravesite of my grandmother’s Uncle Gus. He lost his leg during the civil war and passed away circa 1900. Each of my brothers and me would post a small U.S. flag at his gravesite. To this day, I do the same thing for my father who fought in WWII and was awarded a silver star as well as 5 bronze stars.

BTW, I have friends in Virginia that still refer to the Civil War as “The War of Northern Aggression”. Some people hold grudges for a LONG time.

Calling the 1861-64 war a "Civil War" is a Northern thing and perhaps not meeting of the definition which is "a war between citizens of the same country".

Calling it The War Between the State is more accurate, but it was the War of Northern Aggression. Many southerners call it the later.

most people today have never really been taught the truth of the Civil War in out schools. It wasn't just to end slavery but the south joined sides and were not going to pay taxes. IT was called the seccession (sic) from the union.

(05-31-2021 11:30 AM)doss2 Wrote:  

(05-31-2021 08:25 AM)bearcat54 Wrote:  

(05-31-2021 04:20 AM)doss2 Wrote:  

(05-30-2021 09:17 PM)QSECOFR Wrote:  Until my mother passed away, she always called what we now call Memorial Day, Decoration Day since that was the original name of the holiday. The name was changed in an effort to make southerners accept the holiday since Decoration Day was a northern holiday started after the Civil War. People went to the gravesites of the fallen to decorate the gravesites with flags, bunting, and GAR (grand army of the republic) signs.

When I was a kid, every year we went to the gravesite of my grandmother’s Uncle Gus. He lost his leg during the civil war and passed away circa 1900. Each of my brothers and me would post a small U.S. flag at his gravesite. To this day, I do the same thing for my father who fought in WWII and was awarded a silver star as well as 5 bronze stars.

BTW, I have friends in Virginia that still refer to the Civil War as “The War of Northern Aggression”. Some people hold grudges for a LONG time.

Calling the 1861-64 war a "Civil War" is a Northern thing and perhaps not meeting of the definition which is "a war between citizens of the same country".

Calling it The War Between the State is more accurate, but it was the War of Northern Aggression. Many southerners call it the later.

most people today have never really been taught the truth of the Civil War in out schools. It wasn't just to end slavery but the south joined sides and were not going to pay taxes. IT was called the seccession (sic) from the union.

The North was able to pass crushing tariffs on the south. That was the true reason.

Slavery would have shortly without the was because mechanization was coming and slave labor would no longer have been needed.

(05-31-2021 03:06 PM)Bearhawkeye Wrote:  Are kids even taught this stuff these days?

(05-31-2021 06:13 PM)doss2 Wrote:  

(05-31-2021 03:06 PM)Bearhawkeye Wrote:  Are kids even taught this stuff these days?

If you have not been, go to Normandy and Omaha Beach. I was there on a cold rainy October Day. The weather was representative of the somberness one felt. It made you cry. Then good and visit the nearby US military graves. Made one so friggin sad and so friggin proud of the greatest generation.

Then look around at the many worthless youth today.

(05-31-2021 06:19 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  Sad that even this thread goes off the rails with "kids these days" posts.

Thanks to all those served and especially those that gave their lives for this country (and this country not some other dead country some seem to want to celebrate here)