majik

As part of Memorial Day, please use this thread if you wish to recognize servicemen who died.

There was an area set up in my town where 1500 American flags were placed in the ground. They were holding remembrance services for fallen soldiers and signing banners to send to Afghanistan to show support for our soldiers. Here are some pictures I took, it's really amazing to see 1500 flags.

REDZMAN

I watched Band of Brothers from beginning to end on Saturday, and it always gets me. To all of the veterans on this site, and all of those that never made it home, thank you and your families for your service.

radu_rd2

If you are into using Google Earth, someone created a very interesting 'electronic memorial', an interactive map showing the story of each and every one who died
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/24/m...fallen.troops/

daneeboy83

Thanks to those fallen soldiers,
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BrakeRP

To all of my brothers still in it, the Men in Black, love ya's.

De Oppresso Liber
NSDQ
SOF TACP

To the 32 I know and watched go home early in the six years of fighting, miss ya's.

To our first GWOT loss. Ray, you were the epitome of a young a Special Operations Force member, you are still the heaviest on my mind.

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To my 300,000+ brothers in Arlington, I'll see you soon enough.

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Bullfrog

majik

http://www.mapthefallen.org/

I graduated from high school with this man.
http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/20040923080622627

The Department of Defense reported Wednesday that Lance Cpl. Steven Charles Tyler Cates, 22, of Mount Juliet, Tenn., died Monday in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Cates was assigned to 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force and was stationed at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms.

He is survived by his wife, Lisa, of Madison, Tenn., his father, Steven Cates, of Lebanon, Tenn., and his mother, Patricia Shaw, of Mount Juliet, Tenn.

His decorations include the National Defense Service Medal.

Cates enlisted in the Marine Corps in September 2001 shortly after graduating from Mount Juliet High School.

He deployed to Iraq on June 2 as a machine gunner, the military base reported.

Cates, who went by the name Tyler in his hometown, played the baritone saxophone for four years in his high school’s "Band of Gold," the Wilson Post Online Daily in Tennessee reported.

Cates reportedly passed on an opportunity to audition for the Marine Corps band to join an infantry unit.

Cates is the sixth Marine assigned to 1st Battalion, 7th Marines to fall in Iraq since March 2003, according to The Desert Sun records, and the fifth member of the unit to be killed this month.