WWII memorial

For those of you who have family members who served in WW II in uniform or
on the homefront, and would like their names to be included in the registry
for the monument:


http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=home.asp

Costs nothing, you have to provide some demographics to register their
names. A fitting tribute.

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

"slenon" wrote in message
om...
For those of you who have family members who served in WW II in uniform or
on the homefront, and would like their names to be included in the
registry
for the monument:



The Library of Congress is also interested in anyone who served in any war
except the Cold One. www.loc.gov/vets The veterans history project.

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:59:59 GMT, "slenon"
wrote:

For those of you who have family members who served in WW II in uniform or
on the homefront, and would like their names to be included in the registry
for the monument:


http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=home.asp

Costs nothing, you have to provide some demographics to register their
names. A fitting tribute.

Thanks slenon. I'm going to call my dad tonight and get the pertinent
info about his service at Anzio and points north. I'll also see if he
knows the details for my uncles, one who drove amphibious tanks in the
Pacific, another who got injured at Hickam Field and a third who was a
navigator in a B-17 which never made it back from a bombing raid at
Schweinfurt.

Thanks again.

g.c.

i wish i still had the info for my grandfather, wayne p. bailey, who
volunteered and fought in both world wars... he was as genuine and true
a soul as ever i've known, and, other than from my failing memory, he
deserves to be remembered. maybe this bit sent over the ether will be
preserved. he, like many others like him, oughta have more.

jeff

George Cleveland wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:59:59 GMT, "slenon"
wrote:


For those of you who have family members who served in WW II in uniform or
on the homefront, and would like their names to be included in the registry
for the monument:


http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=home.asp

Costs nothing, you have to provide some demographics to register their
names. A fitting tribute.


Thanks slenon. I'm going to call my dad tonight and get the pertinent
info about his service at Anzio and points north. I'll also see if he
knows the details for my uncles, one who drove amphibious tanks in the
Pacific, another who got injured at Hickam Field and a third who was a
navigator in a B-17 which never made it back from a bombing raid at
Schweinfurt.

Thanks again.

g.c.

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:43:13 -0400, Jeff Miller
wrote:

i wish i still had the info for my grandfather, wayne p. bailey, who
volunteered and fought in both world wars... he was as genuine and true
a soul as ever i've known, and, other than from my failing memory, he
deserves to be remembered. maybe this bit sent over the ether will be
preserved. he, like many others like him, oughta have more.

jeff

Um, jeff...they do...they have jeffs, Richards, gcs, Suzys, Sallys,
Billys, and, yeah, even the Kens and Opies, and untold millions of
others who can say things like are said on ROFF and thousands of other
places without fear of being put against a wall, who can walk into a
booth and vote, who can, at least to a large degree, and be they white,
black, rich, or poor, get a trial by a jury, who can be reasonably
protected from all sorts of things from horrible to merely irritating,
and a great deal of other things that Mr. Bailey, et al, fought to
defend and preserve. And those enjoying the fruit of those labors can
do so without the slightest word of thanks or even understanding of just
who or what provided them such a bounty. And I'll bet the great
majority of the wayne p. baileys would not trade all the engraved marble
in the world for the above situation...memorials aren't much good to the
memorialized, but if we must have them, IMO, a jeff is damned sight
better memorial to a wayne p. bailey than some monogrammed marble...

TC,
R
....who has seen enough folded flags change hands to last a lifetime or
two, but knows they'll be more, and unfortunately, a great many of them
will be absolutely necessary...and tragically, some won't...

RDean writes:
And I'll bet the great
majority of the wayne p. baileys would not trade all the engraved marble
in the world for the above situation...memorials aren't much good to the
memorialized, but if we must have them, IMO, a jeff is damned sight
better memorial much snipped of a
fine testimonial

Very true, and well put....I have been fortunate to have known many from that
generation who served in one way or another in WW II, and can't remember one
who seemed interested in a memorial. It was like they knew, as RD stated, what
the true memorial(and an ongoing one it is) was to the sacrifices of their
generation.
Tom

thank you. nice and meaningful words, nicely and meaningfully said.

jeff

wrote:

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:43:13 -0400, Jeff Miller
wrote:


i wish i still had the info for my grandfather, wayne p. bailey, who
volunteered and fought in both world wars... he was as genuine and true
a soul as ever i've known, and, other than from my failing memory, he
deserves to be remembered. maybe this bit sent over the ether will be
preserved. he, like many others like him, oughta have more.

jeff


Um, jeff...they do...they have jeffs, Richards, gcs, Suzys, Sallys,
Billys, and, yeah, even the Kens and Opies, and untold millions of
others who can say things like are said on ROFF and thousands of other
places without fear of being put against a wall, who can walk into a
booth and vote, who can, at least to a large degree, and be they white,
black, rich, or poor, get a trial by a jury, who can be reasonably
protected from all sorts of things from horrible to merely irritating,
and a great deal of other things that Mr. Bailey, et al, fought to
defend and preserve. And those enjoying the fruit of those labors can
do so without the slightest word of thanks or even understanding of just
who or what provided them such a bounty. And I'll bet the great
majority of the wayne p. baileys would not trade all the engraved marble
in the world for the above situation...memorials aren't much good to the
memorialized, but if we must have them, IMO, a jeff is damned sight
better memorial to a wayne p. bailey than some monogrammed marble...

TC,
R
...who has seen enough folded flags change hands to last a lifetime or
two, but knows they'll be more, and unfortunately, a great many of them
will be absolutely necessary...and tragically, some won't...

And I'll bet the great
majority of the wayne p. baileys would not trade all the engraved marble
in the world for the above situation...memorials aren't much good to the
memorialized, but if we must have them, IMO, a jeff is damned sight
better memorial to a wayne p. bailey than some monogrammed marble...
TC,

While descendants may normally good things and may speak volumns about the
men and women who carried the guns and built the planes, oral histories
don't always get handed down in a timely or accurate manner. Three
generations and the memories are largely gone. It's good to have both the
living and the granite memorials. I know a limited amount of my father's
PTO naval history, my mother's Nurse Cadet Corps service, slightly more
about my step-father's NA& ETO AAF history, and quite a bit about my
father-in-law's ETO Army history. My children have little concern for such
history. Should they have children, they'll hand nothing down of that
time. This project is not only a memorial but a belated attempt to document
the scope of citizen involvement in winning WWII.

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:54:35 GMT, "slenon"
wrote:

And I'll bet the great
majority of the wayne p. baileys would not trade all the engraved marble
in the world for the above situation...memorials aren't much good to the
memorialized, but if we must have them, IMO, a jeff is damned sight
better memorial to a wayne p. bailey than some monogrammed marble...
TC,

While descendants may normally good things and may speak volumns about the
men and women who carried the guns and built the planes, oral histories
don't always get handed down in a timely or accurate manner. Three
generations and the memories are largely gone. It's good to have both the
living and the granite memorials. I know a limited amount of my father's
PTO naval history, my mother's Nurse Cadet Corps service, slightly more
about my step-father's NA& ETO AAF history, and quite a bit about my
father-in-law's ETO Army history. My children have little concern for such
history. Should they have children, they'll hand nothing down of that
time. This project is not only a memorial but a belated attempt to document
the scope of citizen involvement in winning WWII.

I thought about the way that line sounded, both as I wrote it, and
afterward, but that's how it came out. To clarify, I think the static
memorials are fine, but are not, at least to me, the most "telling"
memorial. To me, the "best" (if it need be labeled) memorial, be it to
soldiers or civilians, during war or peace, is the living kind. That
said, I wholeheartedly understand and support the desire to see the
"granite" kind, too, and that includes those to all of those who were in
service, whenever, wherever, regardless of the politics surrounding what
got them there.

I have no idea how old your kids are, but I'd offer that if they are
under 20-30, what their interest in family history is now may very well
change at 25-30+, and/or, it might skip a generation, and so, anything
you can get down now might just become treasured one day (which is not
exactly a grand revelation, but...).

TC,
R

i wish i still had the info for my grandfather, wayne p. bailey, who
volunteered and fought in both world wars... he was as genuine and true
a soul as ever i've known, and, other than from my failing memory, he
deserves to be remembered. maybe this bit sent over the ether will be
preserved. he, like many others like him, oughta have more.
jeff

All you really need is his name, branch of service, and perhaps where he
entered the service, point of induction.

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm