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imref · « **Reply #750 on:** November 09, 2020, 02:15:02 pm »

Quote from: Natsinpwc on November 09, 2020, 01:03:21 pm

https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/national-museum-of-the-u-s-army-opens-wednesday/article_22b66794-228f-11eb-9e35-9be85d6019eb.html

about freaking time. It has been years in the making, and unfortunately Aberdeen was mothballed.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #751 on:** November 10, 2020, 07:22:09 pm »

Happy Birthday USMC!

varoadking · « **Reply #752 on:** November 11, 2020, 12:19:45 pm »

Salute to all of our Veterans...

Natsinpwc · « **Reply #753 on:** November 11, 2020, 12:47:25 pm »

Quote from: varoadking on November 11, 2020, 12:19:45 pm

Salute to all of our Veterans...

Ditto. Forgot it was Veterans Day.

DCFan · « **Reply #754 on:** November 17, 2020, 01:40:24 pm »

Wreaths Across America has been cancelled because of covid.

Edit; this decision came from Arlington Cemetery.

imref · « **Reply #755 on:** November 17, 2020, 02:22:59 pm »

Quote from: DCFan on November 17, 2020, 01:40:24 pm

Wreaths Across America has been cancelled because of covid.

Edit; this decision came from Arlington Cemetery.

It has been cancelled at Arlington, we're still waiting on word from Quantico but it will probably be cancelled there. Some of the private cemeteries, including Stonewall Memory Gardens in Manassas, are still moving forward AFAIK (I'd assume by spacing out groups of fewer than 25).

imref · « **Reply #756 on:** November 17, 2020, 03:09:50 pm »

Arlington is back on per orders of the sec of the army

HalfSmokes · « **Reply #757 on:** November 17, 2020, 03:16:00 pm »

Quote from: imref on November 17, 2020, 03:09:50 pm

Arlington is back on per orders of the sec of the army

it seems a lot lower risk than some of the other events that are going forward

imref · « **Reply #758 on:** November 17, 2020, 03:24:19 pm »

Quote from: HalfSmokes on November 17, 2020, 03:16:00 pm

it seems a lot lower risk than some of the other events that are going forward

Yeah. Outdoors, plenty of spacing opportunities

imref · « **Reply #759 on:** December 07, 2020, 03:20:25 pm »

Quantico National Military Cemetery will be doing wreath laying on December 16-19.

varoadking · « **Reply #760 on:** March 29, 2021, 01:19:09 pm »

The troops were officially withdrawn on March 29, 1973...other than our remaining MIA's and POW's...

Ali the Baseball Cat · « **Reply #761 on:** April 09, 2021, 03:15:44 pm »

The Battle of Vimy Ridge started 104 years ago today. Thich was also the year the Leafs last won the Cup.

imref · « **Reply #762 on:** April 30, 2021, 06:07:56 pm »

Just heard the pentagon turned down the request of use the parking lot again for RT due to the pandemic. The organizers are trying to get RFK instead.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #763 on:** June 29, 2021, 10:39:09 pm »

Found out tonight a little back story on Maya Lin and the Vietnam Memorial. At Yale, there's a memorial rotunda between the main dining hall and the large formal auditorium that has names inscribed of alumni who died in service in wars dating back to the Civil War. When we were freshmen, they had just finished inscribing the names of the fallen in the Vietnam War. Lin apparently would rub her had over the new inscriptions and trace them as a young architectural student, which was apparently part of her inspiration for the Vietnam Memorial.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #764 on:** July 31, 2021, 10:24:29 pm »

Not quite a veteran topic but 9/11 related.

T2t.org . There's a firefighter who lost a brother at the world trade towers who is walking from dc to shanksville to nyc to raise funds for support of firefighters families. Met a lot of firefighters in town from NYC to see him off.

imref · « **Reply #765 on:** September 24, 2021, 03:11:55 pm »

The Tank Farm in Nokesville is having its annual open house this weekend: https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/families-invited-to-ride-tanks-military-vehicles-at-tank-farm-open-house/article_f5054ca2-1c89-11ec-bcda-876b18ff3a5b.html

This is a lot of fun for those into military history, especially WWII.

HondoKillebrew · « **Reply #766 on:** October 27, 2021, 10:24:53 pm »

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/10/27/arlington-national-cemetery-tomb-unknown-centennial/

varoadking · « **Reply #767 on:** November 11, 2021, 02:44:09 pm »

Happy Veteran's Day to all who have served...

Ali the Baseball Cat · « **Reply #768 on:** November 11, 2021, 02:47:01 pm »

I'm surprised at how few private businesses observe 11 Nov (under any name)...I've gotten e-mails today from countries that used to be shut tight on this day.

imref · « **Reply #769 on:** November 11, 2021, 03:26:32 pm »

Quote from: Ali the Baseball Cat on November 11, 2021, 02:47:01 pm

I'm surprised at how few private businesses observe 11 Nov (under any name)...I've gotten e-mails today from countries that used to be shut tight on this day.

We participated in a flag placement on Veteran gravesites on Saturday but I'm working today.

English Natsie · « **Reply #770 on:** November 11, 2021, 05:57:50 pm »

National two minute silence observed at 11AM, over here.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #771 on:** October 08, 2022, 11:36:41 am »

I don't know what it says that this topic went 11 months without a post, but . . .

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2022/09/23/cfc-cooper-hatch.cnn/video/playlists/life-questions-champs-change/

Yes, it's got a Yale connection, but it's a pretty cool story of Jimmy Hatch, a former SEAL who lost a leg in the Bo Bergdahl rescue. A lot of reflection on the lessons of Afghanistan. On the Yale side, he's a senior there and the oldest member of the class of '23 as an Eli Whitney scholar, and co-teaching a grad course on the war with a former ambassador. Plus, lots of great dog pix.

varoadking · « **Reply #772 on:** November 11, 2024, 06:25:16 pm »

Happy Veterans Day to Vets everywhere...

imref · « **Reply #773 on:** November 11, 2024, 07:10:34 pm »

Quote from: varoadking on November 11, 2024, 06:25:16 pm

Happy Veterans Day to Vets everywhere...

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #774 on:** May 26, 2025, 11:59:59 am »

Quote

Elmer Gedeon played in just five big-league games, those with the Washington Senators over a six-day stretch in September 1939.A Cleveland native, Gedeon went 3-for-15, with all of his hits coming in a 10-9 win against the Indians in front of a sparse crowd at Washington’s Griffith Stadium. He’d earlier been a multi-sport athlete at the University of Michigan, excelling in both baseball and track, and also playing on the football team. Gedeon spent 1941 season with the Piedmont League’s Charlotte Hornets, then was drafted into the Army the following winter.

On April 20, 1944, the B-26 bomber he was piloting was shot down over France. At age 27, Gedeon was the first of two major-league players killed in combat during World War II. The other is Harry O’Neill, who played briefly for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1939. O’Neill lost his life in 1945 during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes-spencer-schwellenback-isnt-just-throwing-the-ball-anymore/
In memorium.