Memorial Day, 82nd Airborne Division and Run for the Wall

Memorial Day, 82nd Airborne Division and Run for the Wall

Some days, it just feels like the United States of America is over. We can’t agree on anything. We hate each other. We, on the right and…

#MemorialDay: Paying Respects To Our Honored Dead [VIDEO]

#MemorialDay: Paying Respects To Our Honored Dead [VIDEO]

Today is the day when every American should stop and pay their respects to our honored dead, whether in thought or in deed. At Arlington National Cemetery,…

Shameful: Memorial in Venice CA Remembering Vietnam MIAs Defaced [VIDEO]

Shameful: Memorial in Venice CA Remembering Vietnam MIAs Defaced [VIDEO]

We at Victory Girls know that Memorial Day is not really about the start of the summer season, vacations, and barbecues. We use this weekend to remember those…

PacSun Pulls Upside Down Flag T-Shirt After Outcry

These clothing retailers never seem to learn. Just recently, Under Armour got castigated for using imagery similar to the Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima on…

#GoSilent: Honoring Those Who Gave All on Memorial Day

Despite what store sales, advertisements, and the Democrats have said, this day is not about getting the lowest prices or barbecues. It’s about remembering those who died…

What “the Fallen” Really Means

We hear it every year:  Memorial Day is for remembering the fallen.  This is a concept that we know and hold sacred.  Certainly we remember that they…

“They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation”

I’m not worthy to write about Memorial Day. I haven’t the slightest clue what going into battle means.  I don’t know the first thing about that kind of…

1st Lt. Travis Manion and Lt. Brendan Looney are “Brothers Forever” – and Weekend Links

In 2004, Travis Manion and his roommate and best friend, Brendan Looney, had just graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. The wars in Iraq…

Remembering the Fallen: Giving their last full measure of devotion

The price paid for freedom in blood and treasure is high and painful. But the return is priceless: freedom to live and thrive and pursue happiness as…

Remembering Our Fallen

My husband and I just got home from visiting our hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. Often, on federal holidays, Camp Lejeune gives Marines and sailors a 96 —…

Freedom: Priceless

MEMORIAL DAY 2011 solemn. poignant. somehow fitting. the irish brigade memorial at gettysburg an excerpt from the Gettysburg Address: “The brave men, living and dead, who struggled…

Someone to remember this Memorial Day

To Marines, the name Jason Dunham is already famous. He was born on November 10, 1981 — the Marine Corps birthday. He was raised in Scio, NY,…

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