Thanks Dave, and Bob and Jack and Boris, for your comments. stan
On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:16 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > Nice gallery Stan. I like the Farmall shot > > Dave > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Stan Halpin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> A quick gallery from yesterday's Memorial Day parade here in my new home >> town. It took just short of an hour for it all to pass by - the gallery is >> to give a flavor of the event. >> >> I found the whole experience a bit off-putting. Memorial Day grew out of >> somewhat organized moves by the Grand Army of the Republic (i.e., the Union >> Army) to recognize the dead from the failed Southern insurrection. The South >> would have none of it, but organized their own separate recognition for dead >> Confederate soldiers. Eventually pretty much everybody agreed that a >> national holiday for the purpose of remembering and commemorating the dead >> from all of the country's wars would be appropriate. My family tradition was >> to go on Memorial Day to put flags and flowers on the graves of family >> members who had died in military service, which is the original way the >> holiday was celebrated. Somehow when I wasn't looking the whole thing has >> morphed out of all recognition, with concerts on the National Mall and >> politicians mouthing platitudes about those who serve and parades with >> people in funny hats and collectable old cars. What was originally Armistice >> Day (end of WWI) and morphed > into Veterans Day in this country is a time for honoring all those who > serve; isn't that enough? Do we have to intrude on this day of remembrance > for those who died? >> >> Philosophical mutterings aside, the parade was a decent representation of >> hundreds of small-town parades put on for a variety of reasons (or for no >> reason at all) throughout the country throughout the year. I hope this >> gallery gives a bit of the flavor of the event . . . >> >> http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p463991366 >> >> stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
