Friday, June 29, 2007

Roads to be renamed in honor of fallen Marines

Roads to be renamed in honor of fallen Marines

LAKE COUNTY -- Two amendments attached to the newly passed state budget bill designate portions of northeast Ohio roadways in memory of two Marines.

The bill renames the portion of State Route 2 within the city of Willoughby as the "Brian Montgomery Memorial Highway."

Montgomery served as a Lance Corporal in the Marines and died in action while serving in Iraq on August 1, 2005.

The bill would also designate part of State Route 44 within Lake County, from State Route 2 to the Headlands Beach State Park, as the "Andy Nowacki Memorial Highway"...

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Most governors lower flag for fallen troops

Today's Flag Day and the Army's 232nd birthday.

Most governors lower flag for fallen troops
Half-Staff Policies Vary Widely Among States

By Ben Jones - USA Today
Posted : Thursday Jun 14, 2007 15:06:18 EDT

More than half of state governors lower the American flag to honor service members killed overseas.

As the USA observes Flag Day today, a 50-state check indicates that 28 governors automatically lower flags when service members from their state are killed, and 22 governors do not. Some lower flags statewide, others only at certain facilities or localities.

There is a debate over whether every service member should get the honor. “Otherwise, anytime we’re in a conflict, the flag would be at half-staff most of the time, unfortunately,” said Joyce Doody, executive director of the National Flag Foundation.

Don Bauer, a Vietnam War veteran living in Grand Chute, Wis., said he believes governors should lower the flag to half-staff...

Read Entire Story at ArmyTimes.com (Cut and Paste or Opens New Window):

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/06/military_flagday_070614/

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Monday, June 11, 2007

Check out Our New Group: Remember Fallen Vines

Icon for New Remember Fallen Vines Newsvine Group
USAKIA, which benefits kin of U.S. armed forces who die from combat, will use this graphic for its new group.
It's used with permission, and generally the nonprofit allows the non-commercial use of the KIA flag.


USAKIA began a new group on Newsvine today, Remember Fallen Vines. Its description goes:
To be killed in action (KIA) or to have died of wounds (DOW), to die as a result of armed combat while in the armed forces of the USA, "brings on many changes," like one song goes. It means broken branches in the family tree, fallen vines. Honor combat dead here; benefit their families, those left behind.

One popular World War I (Great War before 1939) memorial went:

Safe in the homeland singing today,
Waiting for dear ones still on the way,
Trials are ended, hardships are past.
Johnny's safe in Heaven at last!

Another poem with an unknown author goes:

We thought of you with love today
But that is nothing new.
We thought about you yesterday
And days before that too.

We think of you in silence
We often speak your name.

Now all we have are memories
And your picture in a frame.

Your memory is our keepsake
With which we'll never part

God has you in His keeping
We have you in our Heart.
Come join, check out the articles, or post one yourself.

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