The holiday also wasn’t always called Memorial Day – it actually used to be known as Decoration Day.
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“Such ignorance and animosity”, said Venice Chamber of Commerce Vice President George Francisco, whose father was a Green Beret in Vietnam.
“Dear Lord, I hope we’ve made these men proud today, because they made us proud”, he said.
“I was so hurt by what I saw on the news this morning”, Charlie Saulenas, a Purple Heart recipient and Vietnam veteran, said.
The mural has a message at the top reading “You Are Not Forgotten” and bears the names of the soldiers counted as prisoners of war or missing in action in Vietnam.
“This knocked me out”.
“Sadness, sorrow, flashbacks, which we all try not to carry the flashbacks, and just gratification”, Thomson said. Think of all these people. “It’s hardly seldom that you hold a program that so many young members come out with their parents and hopfully they’ll go home and have questions and mom and dad will be able to answer”, Joint Veterans Committee Chairman Marty Barnes said. But the body count is not a daily drumbeat the way it was during the Vietnam War. Somehow, it has to be taught that this is not a good idea.
After World War I, the holiday was extended to all soldiers who had fallen in all American wars.
May 30 may have been the selected day because flowers would be in bloom throughout the country, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website. Its name was changed to Memorial Day in 1967.
Anthony Burrus, a 27-year-old local resident, has been charged with criminal mischief in the first degree and leaving the scene of an accident. Online jail records do not list an attorney for Burrus.
“It was first established by the Grand Army of the Republic”, William Justice, with the Vicksburg National Military Park, said.
Blight recounted how Confederate soldiers converted a Charleston race course and club into an outdoor prison, inside of which Union soldiers died and were later dumped in a mass grave.
Unfortunately, life in Maumelle is not like Mayberry and our criminals are more unsafe than Otis, the town drunk.
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Stealing artifacts from the battlefield violates federal law. Those charged and convicted of the crime can face a fine of up to $20,000 and two years imprisonment.
