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Arlington National Cemetery... Ever been ? Well....
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May 29, 2023, 5:56 PM
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if you haven't. I suggest you go at least once in your lifetime. It is a very sacred and hollowed setting. And. therin lies 400.000 reasons you get up your ### and stand for OUR National Anthem.
All gave some but some gave ALL....
God Bless America
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My dad and both grandparents are there
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May 29, 2023, 5:58 PM
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Very awesome.
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Re: My dad and both grandparents are there
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May 29, 2023, 6:01 PM
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Sorry for your loss but what an honor to be buried there
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May 29, 2023, 6:00 PM
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Been multiple times and I posted a couple pics this morning. Always tear up staring at those fields of white stone
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May 29, 2023, 6:00 PM
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Thanks for your service also
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It is truly an experience like no other
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May 29, 2023, 6:02 PM
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Arlington and the holocaust museum should be required places to visit before someone graduates high school.
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I'll fix that for you.... STARTS High School***
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May 29, 2023, 7:18 PM
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Orange Beast [6201]
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May 29, 2023, 6:04 PM
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Yes i have several times and each time it gets emotional ...your correct my friend if you can't get off your ### and stand for the national anthem ..you don't belong here. Navy vet 13 years of service. God Bless America
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May 29, 2023, 6:14 PM
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Thanks for your service!!
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Tiger Spirit [9550]
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Yes, very moving to say the least. And I've also been to...
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May 29, 2023, 6:13 PM
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the American Cemetery up above the beaches at Normandy. Both sites are very humbling.
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May 29, 2023, 6:16 PM
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Sure have. Took my 3 young daughters last month. We owe every person there a huge debt that we can never repay.
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Game Changer [1811]
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Also been to the Punchbowl in Honolulu
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May 29, 2023, 6:18 PM
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Of course not as large as Arlington, but very special
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Orange Blooded [2215]
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Yes. I've been there, too.
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May 29, 2023, 7:53 PM
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It's very moving especially what happened on Oahu in 1941.
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May 30, 2023, 12:30 PM
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On my bucket list to go. Want to visit the Arizona
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May 29, 2023, 6:23 PM
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Marine Corps Marathon starts and ends there. I have been up to do that several times.
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May 29, 2023, 6:40 PM
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I took 10 kids a few months back and hopefully they understand why I tear up when the National Anthem plays and I stand even at the house when we watching a game on tv
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Here in South Carolina, there is a beautiful National
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May 29, 2023, 7:02 PM
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Cemetery in Beaufort, SC. A member of our church was interred there a couple of years ago. I never knew it existed until then.
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May 29, 2023, 7:52 PM
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My wife’s grandfather who was in the Navy at Pearl Harbor is there.
Very moving experience to see.
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May 29, 2023, 8:00 PM
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Never saw it and am interested in seeing it when we go.
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This is were I and my wife will be buried. Now 84 - expecting to see 100! All at God's will! Thanks for those that have made the supreme sacrifice and to those who bear the marks of war upon their bodies and their minds.
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May 29, 2023, 7:36 PM
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Never been. Hopefully some day.
Proud to serve for 5 years in the US Navy. Love this country.
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May 29, 2023, 7:40 PM
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Thanks again for your service Newnan
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May 29, 2023, 8:07 PM
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Thanks. Blessed.
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May 29, 2023, 8:02 PM
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Yes, I've been. Hallowed ground.
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May 29, 2023, 9:10 PM
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if you haven't. I suggest you go at least once in your lifetime. It is a very sacred and hollowed setting. And. therin lies 400.000 reasons you get up your ### and stand for OUR National Anthem.
All gave some but some gave ALL....
God Bless America
WT
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May 29, 2023, 9:18 PM
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if you haven't. I suggest you go at least once in your lifetime. It is a very sacred and hollowed setting. And. therin lies 400.000 reasons you get up your ### and stand for OUR National Anthem.
All gave some but some gave ALL....
God Bless America
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Vietnam 68-69 US Army
Hey, my fellow trooper! I also was in VN during 1968-69 in Pleiku, II Corps. Lost a lot of good comrades. I was an artilleryman.
And, yes, visit Arlington National Cemetery by all means. Been there many times to see my buddies, e.g., Dave Hackworth - the highest decorated officer (still).
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May 29, 2023, 9:27 PM
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My older brother is buried there.
He was in Air Force ROTC at Clemson, majored in Chem Eng, Graduated with a 4.0. Got his Masters in aerospace
sciences and his PhD in astro Physics at the Sandia weapons lab in Albuquerque. He died in 2004 and is interred in a section of ANC overlooking the Pentagon. He worked there.
Arlington is magical...
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Clemson Icon [27766]
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First visited Arlington as a grade-schooler in the
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May 30, 2023, 6:16 AM
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1950's, and several times since, including taking my son and oldest grandson. We, also, have family buried there.
Even among the crowds, there was a reverent silence, literally whispers, which was moving in of itself.
I suppose for all of us who are Veterans, the poignancy of what the cemetery represents is especially memorable. May those who served and those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation rest in peace, and may we always pay tribute to their sacred honor.
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Agree. And make sure to see the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
I was in attendance for several burials of KIA from Afghanistan and Iraq when working in DC. Glad that I was not part of the official party for those and could stand in the back and not have to be up there with the crying mom, dad, siblings, wife and young kids.
One time that I couldn't stand in back I had the honor to be the escort for a young Army Air Force bomber pilot who went missing when his aircraft (B-26?) went down in New Guinea (i think) during WWII, only to be found decades later. Picked him up planeside at Dulles and was there to make sure that he got settled at the funeral home and that all arrangements were in order. Then I escorted a niece for the duration taking her where she needed to go and making sure she got to her seat for the burial. The Old Guard took care of the pilot from the funeral home. It was an honor to help, but I was selfishly glad that it wasn't a recent casualty and I wasn't escorting a close family member. It's been a while, but if I remember correctly, the pilot's son was there to receive the folded flag. A retired Navy admiral who never knew his dad. It had been decades since that plane went down but it was a moving experience from the service at the Ft Meyer chapel to seeing the casket loaded on the horse-drawn Caisson and then the burial itself. All done with the utmost care and professionalism.
Several years later I got detailed to be OIC of a burial detail for an old retiree at a smaller regional military cemetery. “On behalf of the President of the United States, the United States Army, and a grateful Nation, please accept this flag as a symbol of our appreciation for your loved one's honorable and faithful service.”
Glad that it was a retiree who lived a long life and that there wasn't a bunch of young kids and a lot of crying for that one.
I'm eternally grateful that I never had to be the guy knocking on someones door out of the blue to break the news...
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May 30, 2023, 12:14 PM
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Agreed... all Americans should visit.
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The Iwo Jima Monument is there.
Here is my Bride in front after racing the Marathon.
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Clemson Conqueror [11352]
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Yessir - been there a few times. It's impossible not to be
May 30, 2023, 12:37 PM
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moved by the visit, especially when you see people visiting specific graves.
Also - I agree with you...there is a time and place for protesting - but during the National Anthem is NOT it.
Thank you for your service!
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I have been to Arlington and cemetery at Normandy
May 30, 2023, 2:34 PM
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There are no words to describe the experience
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