Remembering those who protected us

and honoring those who didn't make it home alive to greet their loved ones.




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the story behind that movie can be read here.

Families do remember, you know.

Lolo's cousin fought against the Japanese here, was captured and killed by them: his family has a small shrine in their house with his photo and the condolence letter from President Truman.

And one of Lolo's medical school classmates set up a shrine to her brother, who was also killed in the war.

Why shrines? Because the bodies were never found...

His brother also fought, in charge of the local anti Japanese guerilla group who hid on a nearby extinct volcano that we can see from our window.

that's a photo of him when he served as chief of police here, before he died of a heart attack. Toward the end of the war, my husband, then a young teenager, joined them, but he said he didn't see combat. 

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My grandson is  in the USNavy, as was his father; my cousin was in WWII and his ship was hit by a kamikazi; another cousin by marriage died from a similar attack.
Other cousins served in VietNam or in the peacetime military.

Myself? nope. Only the lowly National Guard, and the USPHS commissioned corps before that. 



so anyway, families remember

and one wonders how the NYTimes can print editorials ridiculing the military: Don't any of their families have people who served or died in these wars? from Instapundit:

SHAMEFUL: On Eve of Memorial Day, NYT Accuses U.S. Military of Celebrating ‘White Supremacy.’-----------------
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update and don't forget those who protect and serve those in the USA