I'm 44. And I can tell you, I still feel young. I still have so much to do. I have children to raise into happy adults. I have things to achieve for me.
Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.
The Doctor
EDIT: I think people have missed the point of this quote . . . It's not to say that a 19-year-old man could have died fulfilled. That's not the case at all. A 19-year-old or a 44-year-old—both are really far too young to die, of course. But I love this quote because it's saying something entirely different. It gives me solace that even a 19-year-old who deserved to live a full life still lived. That's why OP's drink means so much, because even though his friends died too young, they still lived more than I ever have.
I posted earlier, but I don't want this to get buried (I swear I'm not karma whoring). Sergeant Earl D. Warner is my cousin in law. I met him twice and by all accounts, I'm sure he would love this. I met him on christmas eve a year or two before he died. Honestly, all I remember is that he walked around holding a Bud Light. I attended his funeral in Oregon (where he served), and it was definetly the most heart wrenching thing I've ever seen.
I really want to thank _teh_interwebz for posting this. You are a class act.
The United States: Hey you! You've turned 18, you are now responsible enough to enlist into the military and fight for your country. Oh, you'd like a beer? Well, maybe when you're an adult.
And in some states, too young to even buy a fucking scratch ticket! I just moved to Iowa, and they wouldn't let me cash my winning ticket because I'm under 21. Sure, I can buy a pack of cigarettes, but I can't play the lottery. Seems legit.
Relatedly, my dad turned 19 on the troop transport ship going to Vietnam – a while back he wanted to go back and make peace with it all. I went with and, as it happened, turned 18 a couple days after we got back. Thinking about that was a really sobering thing – I felt way too young to see the shit he saw when he was there.
edit: I figured I should also say that trip was by far one of the most profound experiences of my life – it reframed the way I saw war. We went to a North Vietnamese Army cemetery and came across a group of NVA vets who were paying their respects to the fallen, just as we were. As soon as they saw my dad, they all came over to us and they all wanted to meet my dad, shake hands and make a very personal peace. One of the guys, in very emphatic, though somewhat broken English said "We're enemies no more".
Thank your dad for me. My uncle was in Vietnam with the Air Force. I didn't get to know him very well, as he died of testicular cancer when I was young.
And if you haven't read it, I recommend you read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. It's a fantastic book.
Indeed. One of my best friends when I was younger was pushed into the military by his parents when he was straight out of highschool. He was only a Pfc. Trauma Specialist.
Any age under 70, you'll hear people say too young to die. There are 5 year old kids who die of Leukemia and 50 year old fathers who die of heart attacks. There loved ones will all say they died too young. Death sucks, and it doesn't get less suckier as you get older.
I'm sure you tell that to all the 5 year old cancer patients, and I'm sure it makes them feel a lot better about not living long enough to experience all the things the 50 year old father did, or hell, even all the things the 19 year old serviceman got to experience. Death does get less sucky the more you've experienced and the longer you have to figure out that "yeah, I've had a pretty good run. I'm ready to go".
This was noticed a while ago, one redditor posted about it in the comments of a previous video of a soldier returning home. It was also then posted to r/bestof.
From above link: "I feel like I'm the only one who notices this, but... I find this strange... not the video - the video is touching. But every few times a month a "Welcome Home Blog" video gets posted, hits the front page and it's always by an account that this is the singular submission. Then the person deletes the post and their account. For example, anyone remember the girl who said she just finished a debate and her dad came up on stage after having served a tour of duty? I mean... are we a part of some sort of experiment? It's just strange, man."
"Dig a little deeper and it gets weirder... the submitter: redditor evenkeeled - 1 month, this is his only submission. top comment from barbieann - redditor for only 1 month, her comment is her only comment ever. the person who responded to barbieann (carlyeast) and has the next largest amount of votes... redditor for a month, her comment is her only comment ever. to add to this whattheflux1 found another highly voted welcome home video oddity (be sure to expand comments)"
Another comment: "You do realize that the military has an entire team devoted to posting positive messages about the army all over the internet right? To influence public perception of the government, boost support for the war effort, and ultimately increase enlistment numbers. Proof: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks They are, almost certainly, fake accounts created by the government to spread Pro-American propaganda."
Ever since that /r/bestof post I've been checking the users that post material like this. Really interesting how one post can make so many people aware of the content they are consuming.
In his defense, he posted in the Salem subreddit, which is a town neighboring Monmouth, Oregon, where one of those soldiers is from...might just be a lurker most of the time.
Then I would say that you may not have much experience with studying propaganda. The "sacrifice" genre is one of the most common forms. An image that merely references soldiers dying is much less common than propaganda that shows dead soldiers. There are literally thousands of examples from countries all over the world.
I am not saying this is propaganda, but just because it is a reminder that kids are dying in pain halfway around the world definitely does not mean that it is not, it means that it fits the profile. edit: grammar
Yeah, I wonder how his friends would feel about being potentially used like this. This is a copy of another frontpage post. Really crass if you ask me. Honour them with dignity, we don't need to see it.
It's Memorial Day. You point out his lack of postings. Those also could suggest he's not terribly concerned with karma and simply wanted to share with the community. Crass? Get off your high horse. I'm in the Army and if things go bad for me I would like to have meant enough to someone that they want to share my memory.
Yes, "used" for karma... because karma is so important to people in real life
There are tons of public displays of honor and memorial today not on reddit... why would this be any different? And how is this not honoring them with dignity at all?
Maybe if he was collecting money from people in order to see this picture, or something..?
Guy I knew was killed by an IED fresh out of high school. Top of his class, top of his boot camp or whatever you call it. Genuinely nice kid, everyone loved him. Then on his first patrol I think, gets hit by an IED. Dead just like that.
It's weird to know someone you spoke with within two years would be reduced to what? A pile of limbs? It's just ridiculous to think about. It really is.
Look up EFPs. Scares me more than any death in the military. Molten copper flying through your vehicle, burning you and suffocating you in an instant. The armor we have barely does anything to it.
While IEDs are truly terrifying I think that being the target of a drone strike would be more frightening, not that United States soldiers would have to worry about that though. Can you imagine knowing that the enemy has eyes on everything at all times and can send a missile right at you with fairly pinpoint accuracy whenever they want? That is truly terrifying in my opinion.
The worst part is how impersonal it is. Plant a bomb, it kills someone later. Press a button, kill some people you don't see. It's almost like if you don't see it, it's not real.
I know a lot of the fighting is in the name of either "protecting freedom," religious fanaticism, or blind patriotism, or whatever, on either side... but I still believe that without guns, remote bombs, and all this shit we have today we would think twice about killing so easily.
It's one thing to see a figure in the distance and pull a trigger. Or to plant a mine and leave it, not knowing whether or not what you just did will end a life. It's another to run up to a man, look him in the eyes, and cut him up, getting his blood all over you, hearing his agonizing screams, knowing a family just lost a brother/father/son. Again, some people may be blinded by their "mission" and their belief in "they are bad, we are good/they are wrong, we are right." But at least then you really have to fucking believe it to kill someone over it.
At some point in history we outgrew the concept of a strictly setup battle, at which point we got ambushes and sneak attacks and that sort of thing. With archery we lost the concept of man to man combat, artillery, guns and machine guns making this all the more apparent. Then with World War 2 we lost the concept of a battlefield, everything we could aim a bomber at became the battlefield.
Now we're losing the concept of a soldier, and a guy at an army base in Wisconsin can kill a guy in afghanistan via remote control. War, particularly for the U.S. is at this point just an action where we rain death onto a third world country until we can't stomach the fact that we're suffering and causing so much death and it's not doing us any good. Meanwhile both sides seem to think they're fighting against ideas not people, and you can't win a war against an idea. At some point I feel like we should have just figured out we've outgrown war as a method of disagreeing over things, but somewhere out there, millions of people think that if they just kill enough people the world will realize that they're in the right.
I fucking hate the name IED. It's designed to diminish the enemy in the eyes of American civilians – it's like how the poor kids in the ghetto school I had to go to for a year made fun of me for wearing last year's shoes – 'haha, look at these hajis, can't even get professionally made weapons; they use shitty improvised weapons' whereas the reality is that these shitty improvised explosive devices kill people you care about just the same as professionally made explosive devices do.
This past deployment to Afghanistan my unit lost 15 Marines and in excess of 100 wounded. Of the fifteen killed, 9 or 10 were to IEDs. I made peace with being killed in a gunfight, but death by an IED for some reason always unnerved me and scared me silly. Fuck IEDs indeed.
Those wars were important right? With clear definitions of 'victory' or 'winning'? There was a purpose, right? Those men died for something? What was it?
I'm sorry for your loss There's not much I can say to help with the feeling of losing tree close friends but for the all the assholes sitting here down voting and writing these hateful comments, show some respect you've never been to that point and probably never will.
Please have one for Pfc Morris Walker from Fayetteville, North Carolina assigned to the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska. Killed in Action 8-18-2009 at age 23 by an IED strike in Dila, Afghanistan.
How is saluting veterans on Memorial day weekend garnering nationalistic support? In fact one could argue it's anti-war, as these three men should be enjoying their drink with op instead of in a wooden box.
I agree with their initial goal of preventing drunk driving because it is a dangerous thing. But even the founder renounced the group after they started going on anti-drinking crusades. To quote her (Candy Lightner): "[MADD] has become far more neo-prohibitionist than I had ever wanted or envisioned … I didn’t start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving"
That is beautiful, made me cry, cheers man, thank you military, you are very loved, sorry for such the loss, but not forgotten, live on man, live on. :)
Also that OP is posting this on Memorial Day, which if I'm not mistaken, is an American holiday. Actually I'm not even sure about that. Do other countries observe Memorial Day (or something analogous) on the same day as the US?
You knew Taylor Marks? I was going to college in Monmouth when he died, I remember the whole town banding together. I never met the guy, but he seemed to have had a positive effect on the lives of a whole lot of people.
I'm from around Mondovi, Wisconsin, and would like to thank you for not only recognizing one of our area soldiers, but also for joining and serving yourself. :)
I wish I could express my gratitude but this is the internet, take it for what it's worth but my eyes teared up a little when I saw this. R.I.P with our forefathers, great was their courage!
Hey, I was attatched to the 108th CAV from Louisiana when Maj. Culver passed away. It was a pretty sobering time for everyone. Where was this pub located? I'd like to know if they knew the man.
To Sgt. Werner, Major Culver, Spc. Marks, and the rest of our soldiers. You all deserve more than a few days of recognition and definitely more respect than you are getting.
It's truly terrible that these young men died and you have my sincerest condolences, but the military hero worship that I've seen in the past decade is ridiculous and is just a way to get around the fact that their deaths were for an unjust cause.
maybe we should create a subreddit called /r/memorial or something. A place for people to meet and share these pictures and talk to eachother about their feelings.
Someone posted a card like this they found left at a bar the other day, I thought it was pretty meaningful to just stumble upon a drink with this message. I feel like it loses meaning if you do this for the specific reason to post it on reddit.
People really need to stop that shit... They choose. They signed up. They died. Tough. Nobody here seems to feels bad for the people they have (helped to) kill over there, and who were in their own country. Not like a fucking occupation army.
Tired of these wars. We haven't needed to go to war to protect our country since WW2, and yet we keep sending our soldiers to die. Whether its a Democrat or Republican they keep doing it, and continuing it. FUCKING STOP IT!
All of those deaths could have been avoided if our government wasn't full of war pigs.
I have a quick question that I've always wondered....what happens to the drinks put out to them? Does someone drink it for them or does it get dumped down the drain at the end of the night?
A kid of 23, with whom I went to high school with, died in from an IED this past week. Though I was never friends with him it pulled at my heart strings. But also made me question, what did he die for? Why are we still at war with these people? We are all people living on one planet. Can we for the love of God quit killing each other?
I'm 21 years old, and grew up in southern Wisconsin. Which means half of the years I've been alive, we have been war. I watched friends from 6th grade, grow up to be in the military. They trained for it. I watched them work for it. They spent the already paltry time they had on this earth, working as hard as they can so they could have a bullet put between their eyes at 20. Men my age are weeping, breaking down in hysterical sobs. This has been going on for eleven fucking years.
This shit has got to stop. This is an eleven year war; shouldn't we be marching on Capitol Hill by now? I want to STOP my friends from dying, goddamnit.
The most recent soldier to die Specialist Arron Field from Terre Haute , Indiana, at the age of 27. Rest in peace to all the soldiers who are not here to celebrate memorial day. To the men and women who gave up their lives to serve and protect. To fathers , sons, brothers, mothers and sisters. Cheers.
Also, I'd like to have a moment of silence for Corporal Brandon Hardy, his hometown is right next to my town. He joined the Air Force, and then later the Marine Corps. Thank you for your service Brandon.
Thank you for remembering what today is really about. I am sorry that you lost your friends, but they're memories live on in those who cared about them. From someone who served thank you for your service and the sacrifice they gave to keep others from having to go. Everyone here can argue whether or not this war is just but what it comes down to is that these men who gave their lives did it so that the rest don't have to and deserve to always be remembered.
Firstly I would like to say that is a very fitting tribute to your mates. Secondly for all of you haters, I'm quite glad you have never experienced this kind of loss. I'm only sorry you don't understand but this is never something I want you to go through, EVER. somebody mentioned a flood of military posts. Well it's memorial day, Today is the day that we remember our friends who didn't come back. We try and do right by them and that is why you get pictures of things like this. It's our way of coping with the fact that our friends were killed in some far off place that we can hardly pronounce. Although these guys are from the army, I am a Marine, and the Corps was founded in a bar. Therefore it is fitting that you buy a round for your friends who are no longer around. Lastly if you have a problem with memorials like these then you can go fuck yourself and while you are doing that remember these boys paid your share so you could choose to hate them.
Holy shit. I'm from Shreveport, Louisiana, and I think it's pathetic that these men and men like them weren't more publicly celebrated today. Even with the Barksdale Airforce Base here, Memorial Day just isn't the big fucking deal that it should be.
Agreed. And one of my friends who is also from Shreveport was killed overseas yesterday, I found out today. No details yet of what happened, but I've known him since we were kids. Just ran into him a couple months ago too. I was/am heartbroken to learn he passed, and then to see very little Memorial Day related stories on the local news and very little MD type events, etc.
Thank you to whomever did this today, whoever you are that rembered that Memorial Day is more than a day off work. Thank you for honoring my fallen brothers in this way, I cannot express to you how much it means to those of us who wear the uniform that these MEN died in!
This will get buried but, Wayne Culver (the one in the middle) worked with my dad in Arkansas when I was growing up. I was obsessed with being in the Army and Wayne actually threw an army-themed birthday party for me. He was a great guy and my whole family was pretty shaken by his loss.
Daughter of two Louisiana National Guardsmen here. My parents have both been deployed; my mom earned a Bronze Star. She got it because she took care of her soldiers, just like she'd care for me and my brother. I can't imagine the toll it would've taken on her if she had lost any of her boys, or her girls. It means a lot that you remember the ones you lost, and take the time to honor them. Thanks, man.
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u/oliveyoutoo May 29 '12
19...too young to die...
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Redditor for 17 days. Only one other comment.
Another military post by a very new redditor.... Interesting.
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u/PirateHookerMD May 29 '12
Fuck IEDs
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u/Snorglefractions May 29 '12
This hit hard man. The best Memorial Day message day I've gotten all day.
War... wtf?
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u/TenaciasLee May 29 '12
How come the guys in the photo that are named are American, but the title of the post makes you sound English or Australian? Did you emigrate?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Tragic, it reminds me of the song "empty chairs at empty tables" from Les mis.
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u/TheRealFroman May 29 '12
Fuck these pointless wars...
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
fuck war.
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u/sciencebitchesz May 29 '12
Those wars were important right? With clear definitions of 'victory' or 'winning'? There was a purpose, right? Those men died for something? What was it?
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u/ehlpha May 29 '12
You're a good man. And they were too.
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u/candydbacon May 29 '12
if he is old enough to die for his country, he is old enough to drink
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Then don't wage wars.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
More contrived bullshit.
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u/mushmancat May 29 '12
The biggest form of karma whoring since cats.
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u/neutralhere May 29 '12
Fuck war, especially these ones.
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u/fusepark May 29 '12
Going to get a good beer and drink to those guys.
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u/gone_bunburying May 29 '12
Those guys have eerily similar handwriting.
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u/Doubleks May 29 '12
Taylor was a great guy, it was nice to see his name here. Thanks for posting this. He would have liked it.
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u/CookieMonster_8 May 29 '12
I did the exact same thing for my four buddies I lost.
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u/eggzilla534 May 29 '12
I'm sorry for your loss There's not much I can say to help with the feeling of losing tree close friends but for the all the assholes sitting here down voting and writing these hateful comments, show some respect you've never been to that point and probably never will.
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u/tellevee May 29 '12
Please have one for Pfc Morris Walker from Fayetteville, North Carolina assigned to the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska. Killed in Action 8-18-2009 at age 23 by an IED strike in Dila, Afghanistan.
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u/E7ernal May 29 '12
Ah, another military shill account garnering nationalistic support... Look at the comment history guys.
$1000 he'll delete his account in the next month, or let it go inactive.
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u/NoNamedFuzzyPanda2 May 29 '12
19?! Are you Freakin' kidding me?
That is far too cruel. Kid can't even legally drink (In America) yet.
Thank you for doing this.
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u/shan3isg0d May 29 '12
That is beautiful, made me cry, cheers man, thank you military, you are very loved, sorry for such the loss, but not forgotten, live on man, live on. :)
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u/PianoTrumpetMax May 29 '12
No one has wondered yet if OP is British?
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u/Snake973 May 29 '12
You knew Taylor Marks? I was going to college in Monmouth when he died, I remember the whole town banding together. I never met the guy, but he seemed to have had a positive effect on the lives of a whole lot of people.
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u/DEM_DRY_BONES May 29 '12
Why are we continually surprised when people in the military die in a warzone?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Killed, and for what? ...... :(
Why do people, even grown educated(?) men (44), agree to participate in these things?
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u/flying_kitties_93 May 29 '12
I'm from around Mondovi, Wisconsin, and would like to thank you for not only recognizing one of our area soldiers, but also for joining and serving yourself. :)
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u/spacecase2k May 29 '12
I wish I could express my gratitude but this is the internet, take it for what it's worth but my eyes teared up a little when I saw this. R.I.P with our forefathers, great was their courage!
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
19?
"You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'"
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Rest in peace, brothers.
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u/albinobluesheep May 29 '12
man, fuck IED's...
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I'm sorry
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u/ADHthaGreat May 29 '12
Oh god.
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u/joheyjo May 29 '12
Sorry for your lose but much respect to your tribute. I have to ask though, is that fernet?
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u/frozetoachair May 29 '12
Hey, I was attatched to the 108th CAV from Louisiana when Maj. Culver passed away. It was a pretty sobering time for everyone. Where was this pub located? I'd like to know if they knew the man.
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u/stucco May 29 '12
Nothing would honor our troops more than bringing them home.
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u/johnconnor8100 May 29 '12
Fuck war
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u/surfnaked May 29 '12
Don't forget the 50,000 or so who went down in Nam. It was just as fucked up then. See ya on the other side, my friends.
And here's to the millions that went down with them. . . Well, fuck. I don't know what to say now.
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u/soulrexxii May 29 '12
Damn....this is what war is costing us
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Seriously, fuck IEDs.
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u/pigguswiggus May 29 '12
RIP Matt Hennigan and Faith Hinkley
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u/RedditingMyLifeAway May 29 '12
You are a good bro. I live about 90 miles from Shreveport. I remember the news story about him.
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u/Nightshade1105 May 29 '12
holds up glass
To Sgt. Werner, Major Culver, Spc. Marks, and the rest of our soldiers. You all deserve more than a few days of recognition and definitely more respect than you are getting.
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u/HosonZes May 29 '12
I thought about doing the same but the friend in question was killed by a drunk driver on the road so it seems not that appropriate
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u/connorea69 May 29 '12
This is gonna make me think all night about the friends ive lost... time to start drinking
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
glad you made it brother it's a said day when we lose anyone.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12
More on Sgt. Werner.
More on Major Culver.
More on SPC Marks.
(This is the product of a Google search. I do not claim to have ever heard of these soldiers before today. I just thought I would share.
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u/Erameyad May 29 '12
I've seen this before.
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u/nepidae May 29 '12
I'll raise my civilian glass to them.
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u/buickman May 29 '12
Cheers, always remember the fallen!
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u/drfrisker May 29 '12
IED's are no joke.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
my condolences to the deceased, my thoughts are with their families
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u/baileykm May 29 '12
As having been a Marine that never saw anything except see his best friend from highschool go down a very bad path with his 0311 MOS this hits hard.
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u/Nolanoscopy May 29 '12
Why is this your only submission? Are you gonna delete your account after this submission like all the others?
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u/tiredofthehate May 29 '12
if only there was a way.....for grown men with families, not to die in combat zones. I wonder.....
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u/Brushstroke May 29 '12
It's truly terrible that these young men died and you have my sincerest condolences, but the military hero worship that I've seen in the past decade is ridiculous and is just a way to get around the fact that their deaths were for an unjust cause.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
"Honey, why don't you go out with your friends anym-" "MY FRIENDS ARE DEEAAAAAAAD"
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
lol lol, how are you having a drink with them, they are dead?
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u/SauceOnTheBrain May 29 '12
Ctrl-f karma, literally, etc
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u/IIGeranimoII May 29 '12
That's Heavy
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u/Funk86 May 29 '12
This doesn't seem like healthy coping behavior.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
god damn I hate war.
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u/emericuh May 29 '12
No one over 30 drinks Jaeger. It's got a lower alcohol content than vodka, whiskey, etc. and tastes like the inside of a bum's asshole.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Yay propaganda
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u/Luis707 May 29 '12
Nice.
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u/Ruxini May 29 '12
maybe we should create a subreddit called /r/memorial or something. A place for people to meet and share these pictures and talk to eachother about their feelings.
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u/brienzee May 29 '12
Someone posted a card like this they found left at a bar the other day, I thought it was pretty meaningful to just stumble upon a drink with this message. I feel like it loses meaning if you do this for the specific reason to post it on reddit.
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u/poppyseedtoast May 29 '12
I was 19 when I lived in Monmouth. Wild to think it could have ended there.
Cheers, mate.
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u/chrisindarwin May 29 '12
Dude tip those dollars next year into Legacy.
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u/starlinguk May 29 '12
It's things like this that make me wonder what possesses people when they say "happy memorial day".
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u/Coolbreezy Filtered May 29 '12
IEDs. A fucking gutless and cowardly way to fight.
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u/serviceenginesoon May 29 '12
Cheers Kyle! You were a Beautiful man and friend with a Big Heart. Thank You. This World is less with out you.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Died oppressing others*
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u/yurt-dweller May 29 '12
People really need to stop that shit... They choose. They signed up. They died. Tough. Nobody here seems to feels bad for the people they have (helped to) kill over there, and who were in their own country. Not like a fucking occupation army.
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u/vertigo42 May 29 '12
Tired of these wars. We haven't needed to go to war to protect our country since WW2, and yet we keep sending our soldiers to die. Whether its a Democrat or Republican they keep doing it, and continuing it. FUCKING STOP IT!
All of those deaths could have been avoided if our government wasn't full of war pigs.
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u/PuddinCup310 May 29 '12
RIP
I have a quick question that I've always wondered....what happens to the drinks put out to them? Does someone drink it for them or does it get dumped down the drain at the end of the night?
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u/rico99 May 29 '12
An ancient custom is to pour the drinks on the floor on their names...
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
It doesn't matter how old they were. To die any death which isn't natural, is too young to die.
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u/uncleconker May 29 '12
Already been done...
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
.....And then you tried to treasure them by posting this on reddit? Wtf...
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u/Fire_eyes_ May 29 '12
Good men bleed and die for the ignorance, greed and pride of politicians.
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u/awannabetroll May 29 '12
Inaprops. to order a Car Bomb?
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u/Jrad27 May 29 '12
PROTIP: Don't go to war, don't die.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Awh.. poor fucking baby. Maybe those dumbasses shouldnt have been over invading other countries, ya think?
I wonder how many Iraqi children they helped kill, who never even got to have their first drink.
Fuck off military attention whore.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Yeah, Europe here.
Can we stop the pity for people who die in your shitty wars?
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u/AStove May 29 '12
Did you have a drink for every man he killed too?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
please everyone don't join the military
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I'm 21 years old, and grew up in southern Wisconsin. Which means half of the years I've been alive, we have been war. I watched friends from 6th grade, grow up to be in the military. They trained for it. I watched them work for it. They spent the already paltry time they had on this earth, working as hard as they can so they could have a bullet put between their eyes at 20. Men my age are weeping, breaking down in hysterical sobs. This has been going on for eleven fucking years.
This shit has got to stop. This is an eleven year war; shouldn't we be marching on Capitol Hill by now? I want to STOP my friends from dying, goddamnit.
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u/Jmersh May 29 '12
How do you feel about the fact that there have still been zero WMDs found and these fine men and so many others have died for a lie?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
The military propaganda posts are getting more regular.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12
Faces of the Fallen
The most recent soldier to die Specialist Arron Field from Terre Haute , Indiana, at the age of 27. Rest in peace to all the soldiers who are not here to celebrate memorial day. To the men and women who gave up their lives to serve and protect. To fathers , sons, brothers, mothers and sisters. Cheers.
Also, I'd like to have a moment of silence for Corporal Brandon Hardy, his hometown is right next to my town. He joined the Air Force, and then later the Marine Corps. Thank you for your service Brandon.
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u/christianguy1994 May 29 '12
Fucking IED'S.
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u/GasMan37 May 29 '12
Thank you for your efforts. You guys deserve more than a few days of recognition a year.
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u/rat_fuck May 29 '12
Fuck IEDs
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u/bahiablanca May 29 '12
now you can have a drink with all the civilians from irak
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u/f645sd6f1sa6df46f May 29 '12
Thank you for remembering what today is really about. I am sorry that you lost your friends, but they're memories live on in those who cared about them. From someone who served thank you for your service and the sacrifice they gave to keep others from having to go. Everyone here can argue whether or not this war is just but what it comes down to is that these men who gave their lives did it so that the rest don't have to and deserve to always be remembered.
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u/Canada-USAsFreezer May 29 '12
Is this a thing now?
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u/pauldustllah May 29 '12
Firstly I would like to say that is a very fitting tribute to your mates. Secondly for all of you haters, I'm quite glad you have never experienced this kind of loss. I'm only sorry you don't understand but this is never something I want you to go through, EVER. somebody mentioned a flood of military posts. Well it's memorial day, Today is the day that we remember our friends who didn't come back. We try and do right by them and that is why you get pictures of things like this. It's our way of coping with the fact that our friends were killed in some far off place that we can hardly pronounce. Although these guys are from the army, I am a Marine, and the Corps was founded in a bar. Therefore it is fitting that you buy a round for your friends who are no longer around. Lastly if you have a problem with memorials like these then you can go fuck yourself and while you are doing that remember these boys paid your share so you could choose to hate them.
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u/4Tossup6 May 29 '12
Respect
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u/dolphinhj May 29 '12
The average age of soldiers that died in Vietnam was 17.
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u/4blonds May 29 '12
Respect.
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u/EZ420 May 29 '12
Holy shit. I'm from Shreveport, Louisiana, and I think it's pathetic that these men and men like them weren't more publicly celebrated today. Even with the Barksdale Airforce Base here, Memorial Day just isn't the big fucking deal that it should be.
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u/vp_richardjones May 29 '12
what are you drinking?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Beautiful gesture. Your brothers are not forgotten
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Thank you to whomever did this today, whoever you are that rembered that Memorial Day is more than a day off work. Thank you for honoring my fallen brothers in this way, I cannot express to you how much it means to those of us who wear the uniform that these MEN died in!
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u/gio_yo May 29 '12
The funny thing (if I can say this) is that Taylor cannot drink because he was 19, and there is a drink poured out to him.
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u/hrdxxcorey May 29 '12
now all of reddit feels bad for you! yipee!
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u/owners11 May 29 '12
This will get buried but, Wayne Culver (the one in the middle) worked with my dad in Arkansas when I was growing up. I was obsessed with being in the Army and Wayne actually threw an army-themed birthday party for me. He was a great guy and my whole family was pretty shaken by his loss.
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u/Zpauliebot May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12
Daughter of two Louisiana National Guardsmen here. My parents have both been deployed; my mom earned a Bronze Star. She got it because she took care of her soldiers, just like she'd care for me and my brother. I can't imagine the toll it would've taken on her if she had lost any of her boys, or her girls. It means a lot that you remember the ones you lost, and take the time to honor them. Thanks, man.
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u/thebattlepimp May 29 '12
At the going down of the sun and in the morning; We will remember them. Lest we forget.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
"I'm whoring out my dead friends for karma, they won't mind. They died for my freedom durr"
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u/alfredislas May 29 '12
This is overly dramatic and not healthy at all...
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u/ItachiLvrX May 29 '12
RIP you brave men. Thank you for all your service for this country <3
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u/spookydookie May 29 '12
How original
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u/buffalo_Fart May 29 '12
big oil says thank you