A Thank you.

[MHKflyer52]

Thank you to all the men and women that are or have ever served in the Armed Forces of our country.

It is because of your unselfish commitment to the American public and our country that we have the freedom that we enjoy today.

So THANK YOU and I hope you have a safe and relaxing Memorial Day.

[Davemk1]

Hear Hear.

 

Thank you,

 

Dave

[Hank]

I agree 100%. Thank you Martin!

[slngsht]

agreed.

[yellowss7]

God Bless America and all those who proudly wore the uniform of this great land.

 

Tom

[solder_guy]

Although I did not serve in the military for various reasons .. I do respect those who have served.

 

A.L. first proposed a Memorial Day .. so the tradition goes back to the American Civil War.

 

Rob

[wankel_locost]

A very classy post, all. Even as a veteran myself, I join you in gratitude to all who've gone before, stand now, and accept their future call to serve.

Godspeed

dennis

[lowflyer]

At the risk of highjacking the thread... I would like to pose a trivia question.

 

First though, let me add to those that have thanked all of the vets who have paid the price for our freedom.

 

Now the question... why was Arlington Military Cemetery placed where it is? I will offer one hint, it was established during the Civil War (or as it is known in the south, "The period of Yankee agression").

 

No prizes, other than the satisfaction of adding a bit of knowledge to our personal "hard drives".

 

Ken Edney

Chandler, AZ

[solder_guy]

why was Arlington Military Cemetery placed where it is? I will offer one hint, it was established during the Civil War

 

Arlington House was owned by Mary Custus Lee, the wife of Robert E. Lee. The Union decided to bury their dead in her garden to make sure that R E Lee could never live there again .. and he didn't .. He became president of Washington College which became Washington and Lee College after his death .. where he is buried in the chapel there.

 

Rob

[MHKflyer52]

Was it not the property of General Lee who was defeated by the North and use as a cemetery and a way of compensation for the loss's of the Union Soldiers.

[lowflyer]

Ding - Ding - Ding, we have multiple winners, although Solder Guy is the most accurate in his answer.

[spotcheck]

The back story - property taxes had to be paid in person. When the Feds levied the property tax, Bobby Lee was not about to show up in person to pay, so it was confiscated.

 

(I can call him "Bobby" since I now live in Georgia, on the north bank of Peachtree Creek where my Yankee antecedents hung out for one day - July 20, 1864. They hung out on the south bank the next day).