Memorial Day is a confusing day for too many Americans.
The percentage of the population entering military service has declined over the decades and thus the numbers of families who lose loved ones has also decreased.
That adversely affects the understanding of what the Day is all about.
Far too many see as a long holiday, good shopping bargains, and picnics.
A great many think it is the time to thank ALL Veterans for their service when it is the 11th of November which is reserved for that purpose.
Memorial Day is when we remember all those who have died in service to our Nation while in the military services.
It is a somber, serious, day of mourning for a great many number of families across the Country.
For those of us who served in combat and lost friends it is a very special day of the year for us.
As this is the Military Aviation Thread....of all places I would think there would be some sense of sensitivity to a post about a personal account of losing a family member during war time.
If it had been a post about a Lancaster headed to Germany rather than an American B-24 in New Guinea....would that prevent such a snarky comment about American involvement in the Second World War?
Perhaps a visit to Cambridge or to the American hangar entry at Duxford might serve to remind some of you of one part of the American involvement in the Second World War.
I, along with several other folks, help tidy up a British Cemetery in Ocracoke, North Carolina....and our Coast Guard Station there looks after it as well.
There is just a few Royal Navy Sailors buried there and at Buxton....but we show respect to them all these years after the War.