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Memorial Day

Big Red Car — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:39:57 +0000

Memorial Day is the day we honor our war dead, the men and women who gave their lives in combat to protect our nation. This is a lineage that goes back to the American Revolution. Imagine you were a Colonial man who was approached with this proposition: “Would you join a rebellion against the most […]

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Memorial Day — Have We Earned It?

Big Red Car — Mon, 29 May 2023 13:17:03 +0000

Memorial Day is the sacred day in American history when we reflect upon and honor our war dead. It is a day dedicated to those who gave their lives for our country and for us. If you are near a Federal cemetery, it is a moving experience to visit it and read the names on […]

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Honor and Observe v Celebrate Memorial Day

Big Red Car — Fri, 28 May 2021 22:02:02 +0000

Monday is Memorial Day, the day upon which we honor and observe, not celebrate, those who lost their lives in service to the Nation in the military during wartime. As a Nation, we ponder with solemnity the sacrifice these men and women made in service to the Nation. We have three related days pertinent to […]

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Memorial Day — The View From Another Direction Revisited

Big Red Car — Sun, 24 May 2020 14:10:28 +0000

I wrote this blog post last year. I still like it. Having been an Army brat, having grown up on Army posts, having a mother and father who served in World War II, having a father who was a career soldier, having been educated at Virginia Military Institute, and having served in the Army for […]

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Memorial Day — The View From Another Direction

Big Red Car — Mon, 27 May 2019 19:11:26 +0000

Having been an Army brat, having grown up on Army posts, having a mother and father who served in World War II, having a father who was a career soldier, having been educated at Virginia Military Institute, and having served in the Army for five years — I have a view of Memorial Day from […]

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Jessica A Ellis, Combat Medic

Big Red Car — Fri, 12 May 2017 16:51:49 +0000

Jessica A Ellis was a combat medic who was killed in Iraq on Mother’s Day 2008. Sunday is Mother’s Day. It made me think of her. May 29, Monday, is Memorial Day. I will think of her again. On Sunday, I want you to take a second and think about the price of freedom and […]

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Honoring America’s War Dead

Big Red Car — Mon, 27 May 2013 12:36:01 +0000

Big Red Car here. Cloudy, bit drippy and generally not “top down” weather. Likely reminds veterans of some of their worst days. Today is Memorial Day — the day upon which America honors its war dead. It is a sad occasion. It is very sad to contemplate all of those lost lives in defense of […]

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Duty — odious duty

Big Red Car — Sun, 26 May 2013 13:22:49 +0000

Big Red Car here. Been raining cats and dogs here in the ATX. The Boss was mumbling about planting some hibiscus and mandevilla vines along his big stone walls by the driveway — where your Big Red Car often bivouacs on a rainy night. [Hey, I like the idea of sharing my bunk with some […]

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Here comes the cavalry! The Promise

Big Red Car — Sat, 25 May 2013 11:15:00 +0000

Big Red Car here. Rainy and gloomy and an altogether typical late May day. The ATX gets a lot of its rain during the end of May and then we settle in for the long, hot, dry journey through June to August and finally to September and the start of Longhorn football. Go Horns! On […]

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