Memorial Day

[Bazza]

Remembering those who have served and paid the ultimate price, made the ultimate sacrifice to keep us all free.

This is the Land of the Free because of the Brave!

Thank you all for your service.

 

[bamamc1]

I’m continuing my annual tradition of watching the entire Band of Brothers series on Memorial Day. Thanks to all who’ve served our country and especially those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

 

[Windsortide]

Happy Memorial Day and thank you to all the veterans and all that you have done!

 

[Bazza]

I’m continuing my annual tradition of watching the entire Band of Brothers series on Memorial Day. Thanks to all who’ve served our country and especially those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

FYI.....there's a new series starting tonight.....

World War II With Tom Hanks premieres Monday, May 25 at 8/7c

 

[bamamc1]

FYI.....there's a new series starting tonight.....

World War II With Tom Hanks premieres Monday, May 25 at 8/7c

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll definitely watch.

 

[Tidewater]

My favorite quote from George S. Patton, Jr.:

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived” George S. Patton, Jr., June 7, 1945.
Despite Patton's admonishment, I have to confess that when I look at the grave of Private Maryland Virginia Griffith, 116th US Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, killed in action at Verdun, October 10, 1918, I do mourn.

Griffith was 21 when he died.

 

[Bazza]

My favorite quote from George S. Patton, Jr.:

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived” George S. Patton, Jr., June 7, 1945.
Despite Patton's admonishment, I have to confess that when I look at the grave of Private Maryland Virginia Griffith, 116th US Infantry, 29th Infantry Division, killed in action at Verdun, October 10, 1918, I do mourn.
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Griffith was 21 when he died.

Maryland Virginia Griffith served in the United States Army as a Private, fighting on the western front in France for three years from June 1916 until his death in October of 1918. While overseas, he was on the front lines of numerous combat missions at the Center sector, Haute Alsace, Malbrouck Hill, and the Battle of Molleville Farm. He died at the Battle of Molleville Farm in 1918. The town of Waynesboro honored his life and his service to the United States by having an extravagant funeral and ceremony at this Basic Methodist Church in 1921 when his remains were finally returned to the United States from a grave in France.

Private Griffith served his fair share of combat missions. He served in the Center sector, Haute Alsace, Malbrouck Hill, and the Battle of Molleville Farm, where he was killed. The Battle of Molleville Farm was an intense 47-day campaign that saw over 1.2 million Americans involved. Griffith was one of the 26,000 killed.

After this brutal campaign and the death of Private Griffith, it took over three years for his body to be found and returned from France to the U.S. The town of Waynesboro remembered him in an extravagant funeral with the main funeral ceremony at this site, the now closed Basic Methodist Church, a thriving church with deep connections to the city of Waynesboro, as a historic focal location for weekly town gatherings and worship.

Griffith frequented Basic as a practicing methodist. At his funeral, multiple pastors, reverends, “scores of automobiles” (the assembly line was invented less than 20 years before this), church choirs, other Great War veterans, family, and friends were all present at the services conducted on July 25th, 1921. So many attended the services for this revered soldier that the front lawn and the roads overflowed with people from Basic, Waynesboro, other neighboring towns, and travelers from afar trying to pay their respects to the brave soldier, who had lost his life in a foreign land but was finally returned home and honored at one of the town’s most honored locations.

More here:

Basic Methodist Church, Funeral site of World War I Private Maryland Virginia Griffith - Clio

Maryland Virginia Griffith served in the United States Army as a Private, fighting on the western front in France for three years from June 1916 until his death in October of 1918. While overseas, he was on the front lines of numerous combat missions at the Center sector, Haute Alsace, Malbrouck...

theclio.com

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Killed on the last day of the war. Incredibly sad. As humans here on earth, we can’t help but think it’s unfair and wonder why.

For some questions, we can’t know the answer until we ourselves have ended our journey and can ask the true Arbiter.