Memorial Day '10

[Chamberlain]

Happy Memorial Day !!

Please remember what our Heroes, both yesterday and today, sacrificed during their service.

Thank You !!!





Chamberlain

[Little Powell]

Thanks for posting that Chamberlain. Many people just think of today as a free day off of work or school, but it's important for us to remember what today is really about. Thanks again my friend.

[bafonetto]

Also in Italy we celebrate this year the 150th anniversary of our republic due to the courage of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his 1,000 men 'the dispatch of a thousand' from the north of Italy by sea and landed in Sicily after a long and bitter struggle succeeded in bringing together under a single banner our beautiful Italy.
Honor all people sacrificed for a noble cause!

[Chamberlain]

Little Powell wrote:

Thanks for posting that Chamberlain. Many people just think of today as a free day off of work or school, but it's important for us to remember what today is really about. Thanks again my friend.

Hey LP,

You are absolutely right !!!

We need to remember that people in our Armed Forces gave the Ultimate Sacrifice for us !!

Chamberlain

[Shirkon]

I'd like to thank my great, great grandfather, Pvt. James Tyler Wood, 40th New York Volunteers who saw action as follows: Battle of Ball's Bluff, Peninsular Campaign, Second Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Chantilly, Battle of South Mountain, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of the Wilderness, Battle of Cold Harbor, Siege of Petersburg and the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox

Also my grandfather Pvt. Winston L. Wood US Army who was with Persing's Army in France during WWI, my father MSgt Charles L. Wood 29th Infantry Division, US Army who hit the beach in the first wave at Omaha and continued until the surrender of Germany during WWII and my uncle Pvt Victorino V. Vittorio USMC for his action at Tarawa, Guam and Okinawa.

May the flag always wave over their graves and they never be forgotten.

[Chamberlain]

Very nicely said, Shirkon !!!

:thumbup: :thumbup:

I too, would like to thank my Grandfather who was in WWI in the Navy and my Dad who at 85 is still going strong, was in WWII in the Pacific Theater.
He was in the 38th Division (Cyclones), 152nd Infantry E Company 2nd Battalion.
He was part of the Island hopping that took place from New Guinea then to Luzon, Phillipines, Leyte, city of Tacloban, etc.

Chamberlain

[Shirkon]

This was just printed in my local newspaper. A fitting tribute.

Students remember Civil War deaths with memorial wall
By Amy Ryan June 1, 2010

WESTON -- For three months of the summer last year, students in the D.C. Everest Junior High Oral History Project went through lists of 12,000 Wisconsin soldiers who died in the Civil War, preparing the names to be put on a memorial wall.

"We (each) must have put in 50 to 60 hours of typing," said freshman Ryan Eisenman, one of the students who worked on the project. "I was starting to see the names in my sleep."

The project, a Wisconsin Civil War Moving Memorial Wall, will be unveiled during the school's Civil War Day June 2 at Kennedy Park in Weston.

"Our teacher (Nancy Gajewski) had the idea(for the wall) when the Vietnam Memorial Wall was here," said freshman Krystal Obermeier, 15. "We just took it from there."

The students got the information on the Civil War soldiers from state and local resources.

"I contacted the curator of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and he sent me an electronic copy of a book of Wisconsin Civil War soldiers that printed 300 pages of 12,000 names," Eisenman said.

The students learned more than history for the project. They raised money to build the wall by writing grants to local organizations including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and the D.C. Everest Area Education Foundation.

"We took an example of a grant written for a different project and based ours off of that," Eisenman said.

Even with a template to work from, asking for $3,000 was difficult for the students. They had to go to various organizations in person and request the money.

"It was really nerve-wracking, but we pulled it out," Obermeier said.

Students also learned how to be responsible for a large project.

"If something went wrong, we had to deal with it on our own," Eisenman said.

The wall stands 7 feet tall and nearly 52 feet long. The 12,000 names are transcribed onto black canvas fabric, giving the illusion of marble. The structure was built by parent volunteer Kris Peterson, who felt a special connection to the project.

"My great, great grandfather was in the Civil War. He marched with Sherman to the sea," she said. "Growing up, we had a lot of Civil War memorabilia around, since my father collected and his father collected. We would take family vacations to Civil War battle sites."

She said she loved working with the kids and seeing them make their own connections to the project.

"This really brings it home to them and how it was during the Civil War," Peterson said. "You see them work on this and they're thinking about the history and the people and they begin to realize just how unsettled Wisconsin was during the war."