Memorial Day 2024 -The Firearm Blog

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Good afternoon everybody and welcome again to TFB’s Silencer Saturday delivered to you by Yankee Hill Machine, producers of the model new YHM 338 Dangerous Larry Suppressor. Final week we touched on some primary suppressor metallurgy to grasp the correlation between elevated warmth and tensile power. This week we pause our sequence in commentary of Memorial Day 2024 and to recollect why this weekend is extra than simply beer and barbecues.

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SILENCER SATURDAY #330: Memorial Day 2024

Don’t get me mistaken, beer, barbecue, and spending time with associates are all necessary actions. However many people, myself included, overlook that the unofficial begin of summer season is marked by a vacation to honor the fallen troopers who gave their lives within the title of freedom. With that, I depart you with a speech from President Reagan on Memorial Day in 1984.

Memorial Day is a day of ceremonies and speeches. All through America immediately, we honor the useless of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We keep in mind they gave their lives in order that others would possibly dwell. We’re additionally gathered right here for a particular occasion, the nationwide funeral for an unknown soldier who will immediately be a part of the heroes of three different wars.

When he spoke at a ceremony at Gettysburg in 1863, President Lincoln reminded us that — by means of their deeds — the useless had spoken extra eloquently for themselves than any of the residing ever might, and that we the residing might solely honor them by rededicating ourselves to the trigger for which they so willingly gave a final full measure of devotion.

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We Individuals have discovered to hear to one another and to belief one another once more. We’ve discovered that authorities owes the individuals an evidence and desires their help for its actions at house and overseas. And we’ve discovered — and I pray this time for good – essentially the most priceless lesson of all: The preciousness of human freedom. It has been a lesson relearned not simply by Individuals however by all of the individuals of the world.

But whereas the expertise of Vietnam has given us a stark lesson that finally should transfer the conscience of the world, we should do not forget that we can not immediately — as a lot as some would possibly need to — shut this chapter in our historical past.

For the battle in Southeast Asia nonetheless haunts a small however courageous group of Individuals, the households of these nonetheless missingin the Vietnam battle. They dwell day and night time with uncertainty, with an vacancy, with a void we can not fathom. Immediately, some sit amongst you; their emotions are a combination of delight and worry. They’re pleased with their sons or husbands, fathers or brothers, who bravely and nobly answered the decision of their nation, however a few of them worry that this ceremony writes a last chapter, leaving these they love forgotten.

The unknown soldier who has returned to us immediately and who we lay to relaxation is symbolic of all our lacking sons. And we are going to current him the Congressional Medal of honor, the very best army ornament we are able to bestow. About him, we might properly surprise as others have: As a toddler, did he play on some avenue in an amazing American metropolis. Did he work beside his father on a farm in America’s heartland? Did he marry? Did he have youngsters. Did he look expectantly to return to a bride. We’ll by no means know the solutions to these questions on his life. We do know, although, why he died. He noticed the horrors of battle however bravely confronted them, certan his personal trigger and nation’s trigger was a noble one, that he was preventing for human dignity, without spending a dime males in every single place. Immediately, we pause, to embrace him and all who served us so properly in a battle whose finish supplied no parades, no flags, and so little thanks. We could be worthy of the values and beliefs for which our sons sacrificed, worthy of their braveness within the face of a worry that few of us will ever expertise by honoring their dedication and devotion to obligation and nation.

Many veterans of Vietnam nonetheless serve within the Armed Forces, work in our places of work, on our farms, in our factories. Most have stored their experiences personal, however most have been strengthened by their name to obligation. A grateful nation opens her coronary heart immediately in gratitude for his or her sacrifice, for his or her braveness and their noble service. Allow us to, if we should, debate the teachings discovered at another time. Immediately we merely say with delight: Thanks, pricey son, and should God cradle you in his loving arms.’

– President Ronald Reagan, Could 28, 1984, Arlington Nationwide Cemetery

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Thanks for studying. Be secure, have enjoyable, and we’ll see you again right here subsequent week for an additional Silencer Saturday.