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Title: Memorial Day
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on May 26, 2025, 02:25:52 PM

A day to remember all those who didn't make it home.

(https://i.postimg.cc/GtpYJTd7/HUEY1.jpg)

Knowing this was my last flight, I went back out and snapped this photo with an Instamatic camera (plastic,@$3 ) of our Huey parked in the revetment.
(https://i.postimg.cc/52JNFY18/HUEYcc.jpg)

Also, being a bit under the weather - this is the first Mem. W/E in ages that I haven't been out on my scooter.

Stig

Title: Re: Memorial Day
Post by: Neil955i on May 27, 2025, 10:08:29 AM

Thoughts & prayers Stig for those brave boys and best wishes to you for a swift recovery.

Title: Re: Memorial Day
Post by: Iahawk on May 27, 2025, 12:18:09 PM

yes, thanks for posting, Stig, and hope you're feeling better.

Title: Re: Memorial Day
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on May 28, 2025, 10:28:59 PM

Our city of Springfield ( mentioned so often by Trump and Vance) has for years held one of Ohio's largest Memorial Day parades.
1.5 miles through town - ending at a veteran's park.
(https://i.postimg.cc/nVd03VFH/Capture.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/13fvb8Rm/Capture2.jpg)

Decades ago I marched in this parade a couple of yrs with a chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America.
Because I went to church - they made me the Medic and the Chaplain!
It was the last time I was in uniform - and, being a conchy - except for a couple of times in 'Nam, were the only times I touched an M-16. (they wouldn't let me march with just a cup of coffee - so I had to shoulder a rifle)
Stig