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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 4322427, member: 591"] Fortunate that my family members who served did survive. But for them, with knowing many comrades who didn't, Memorial Day was always special, especially my Dad who saw so much loss at the airfield where he was a ground mechanic in England in WWII. Returning bombers often contained the dead and dying, shot up during the bombing run or while in transit. And of course, some never returned. When I was young, my town had a parade on Memorial Day, with various groups of Vets remembering their fallen. It was followed by a ceremony at a memorial to all the deceased townsfolk who had served, a considerable list since my town's population when I was growing up was 60,000. At the time there were still WWI veterans in the group. My Dad would reminisce of Veteran's Parades of his youth - with gradually dwindling numbers of Civil War veterans remembering the lost of that war. [/QUOTE]