Memorial Day Thoughts
By Keiti | May 26, 2008
I motivated myself to go watch the Memorial Day Parade in downtown Manitowoc this morning. And I did exactly what I always do which is cry.
I swear I’m the only person I know of who cries at parades. Or I would be if my mom hadn’t told me she does the same thing.
I guess it comes from having grown up in the military, but I can’t hear military songs without getting teary-eyed - it doesn’t matter if they’re Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines. I see G.I.s in BDUs and I sniffle. But what did it for me today was the horse-drawn coffin and the riderless horse with the boots facing backwards in the stirrups.
Military service members past, present, and future deserve our thanks and our respect.
Period.
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