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Wishing all a great Memorial Weekend!
A quiet time to remember our Fallen Ancestors and if you think you have none near you to honour, check the numbers below and bet you can find a cemetery close that will certainly have not just one Veteran you can honour but likely many more. Just look for the flags.
Don't forget a Red Poppy!
Red poppies are a symbol of consolation.
Since World War I, poppies have been a symbol of remembrance at Memorial Day (May 31). The red poppy was used to symbolize the blood of those who died in service to their countries.
The idea started in 1918 when American Moina Michael read the poem “In Flanders Fields,” written by Canadian John McCrae in 1915 during World War I. She began wearing poppies and selling them to others, using the
proceeds to help veterans.
After World War I, veterans sold artificial red poppies to help raise money for French and Belgian war orphans. Today, donations to veterans’ groups are often marked with a token paper red poppy.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the
crosses, row on row.
–Lt. Colonel John McCrae (1872–1918)
CONFLICT SPAN TOTALS
War of Independence (1775-1783) 25,000
Quasi-War (1798-1800) 20
Barbary Wars (1801-1815) 35
War of 1812 (1812-1815) 20,000
1st Seminole War (1817-1818) 30
2nd Seminole War (1835-1842) 1,500
Mexican-American War (1846-1848) 13,283
3rd Seminole War (1855-1858) 26
Civil War (1861-1865) 623,026
Indian Wars (1865-1898) 919
Spanish-American War (1898) 2,446
Philippine War (1898-1902) 4,196
Boxer Rebellion (1900-1901) 37
Mexican Revolution (1914-1919) 35
Haiti Occupation (1915-1934) 146
World War 1 (1917-1918) 116,708
World War 2 (1941-1945) 407,316
Korean War (1950-1953) 36,914
Vietnam War (1964-1973) 58,169
El Salvador (1980-1992) 20
Beirut (1982-1984) 266
Persian Gulf Support (1987-1988) 39
Invasion of Grenada (1983) 19
Invasion of Panama (1989) 40
Gulf War (1991) 269
Somalia (1992-1993) 43
Bosnia 1995 12
Afghanistan (2002-2008) 482
[these numbers could be different now thou]
Iraqi (2003-2008) 3,975
[these numbes could be different now thou]
~To prolong a poppy’s life as a cut flower, plunge the stem in hot water after cutting. ~
Cudos to all Veterans in All the Military's
Nena Smothers NE Wa-A proud desc of many military grandfather's inc My own father and several sons
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