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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead: Short days ago,[...]

As a blanket of fog lifted Saturday at Fort Richardson National Cemetery, volunteers and the families of military service members fanned out to place holiday wreaths on the snow-capped graves of nearly 800 veterans.

The effort, part of a national program called Wreaths Across America, mirrored ceremonies around the country, with as many as 100,000 wreaths expected to be laid on grave[...]

About 60 years before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Japanese bombers sneak attacked U.S. military forces at Pearl Harbor on Oahu shortly before 8 a.m.

The 3,435 U.S. casualties included 2,403 who died in the attack, which did not even last two hours.

The nation suffered either the loss [...]

The brave men and women who serve and protect the U.S. come from all walks of life; they are parents, children and grandparents. They are friends, neighbors and coworkers, and an important part of their communities. Here are some facts about the current veteran population of the United States.
9.2 million veterans are over the age of
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With Memorial Day rapidly approaching, this thread will be a remembrance thread.

A place to list any friends, family,
colleagues you’d like us to recognize at SJ
on this day of honor and everyday.

Please list the name and if possible the
branch, rank or anything else you’d like to share…

As you know our Military forum is a pretty special place.  We were awarded the opportunity through reveryroadie, to ask SSGT Joe Secrist some questions.
He is currently forward deployed as a K-9 Dog Handler in Afganistan has agreed to an interview with the members here at SportsJabber. We can ask pretty much [...]

Who is Ira Hayes? He is one of the Marines that helped hoist the flag at Iwo Jima. He was born and died on an Indian Reservation.
He was sent to a goverment boarding school for Native Americans, and after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor he joined the Marines. He trained as a paratrooper and was [...]

This facebook page was created by a UGA Student, Hannah Stevens. If you have facebook, please join….and here is the story behind it…The original movement was started by military families.I challenge everyone here to wear a red shirt this friday and post in this thead.

Project Red Shirt
“Last week, while traveling to Chicago on [...]

We are very fortunate at SJ, not only to have one of the few military forums on the net (originally the brainchild of our own CowboyDave, retired Air Force Master SGT, and later BFISA, Green Beret, special services) but our board is rich in those that have served.