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2019 Memorial Day on it's way, what're your [drinking] plans?

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Time to switch over from whiskies to vodka/white rum/tequila drinks and summer beers.

I'm thinking I'm going to bust out my rusted ass grill, make a couple of "Daddy's Lemonades" (2 parts Lemonade, 1 part limon vodka, and splash tropical flavored rum) and pay tribute and toast to those barely-grown warriors who went screaming into the maw of uncertainty for valor's sake.

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Re: 2019 Memorial Day on it's way, what're your [drinking] plans?

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I will be working since I work weekends. Since I'm in Maintenance I get to work Monday as well for a Capper rebuild. Yeah me.
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I'll be working as well, albeit shorter days. Not gonna stop me from drinking.
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Going to drink liquor and grill every cow in sight. The funny thing about Memorial Day is not remembering so much.
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My plans include drinking plenty of beer and burning hot dogs. And playing all the hits while drinking beer and burning hot dogs. Should be a fun time.

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Trying to remember the stashes in the cellar.

Drink for those who cannot any longer.
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mistah willies wrote:
Thu May 23, 2019 9:57 pm
Trying to remember the stashes in the cellar.

Drink for those who cannot any longer.
That's what they want us to do.
Quoting this post since I can't just give it a thumbs up.

There was one of those ships that was sunk in Pearl Harbor in 1941. Can't remember which one. But a few of the sailors retreated to a watertight compartment and waited for a rescue that never came. They lived in that watertight compartment, in complete darkness for 16 fucking days before they died. My fucking god. But I know if they had survived it, they would be barbecuing and drinking on Memorial Day, just like we all should.

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Re: 2019 Memorial Day on it's way, what're your [drinking] plans?

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Hugh wrote:
Sat May 25, 2019 12:01 am
mistah willies wrote:
Thu May 23, 2019 9:57 pm
Trying to remember the stashes in the cellar.

Drink for those who cannot any longer.
That's what they want us to do.
Quoting this post since I can't just give it a thumbs up.

There was one of those ships that was sunk in Pearl Harbor in 1941. Can't remember which one. But a few of the sailors retreated to a watertight compartment and waited for a rescue that never came. They lived in that watertight compartment, in complete darkness for 16 fucking days before they died. My fucking god. But I know if they had survived it, they would be barbecuing and drinking on Memorial Day, just like we all should.
Thanks for sharing. This certainly puts things in perspective when we think we are having a shit day.

I concur with you and Willies...raise a glass for those who cannot and Cheers to celebrate life.
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War Memorial on the back wall of a bar

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A little late for Memorial Day, but still.

I’ve seen War memorials all over the world, Guam Saipan, China, Japan Europe, Washington D.C. even the one in St. Petersburg (AKA Leningrad AKS Stalingrad) for “The Great Patriotic War,” and in one way or another I was moved by them, all but none I’ve seen are quite so eloquent as the back wall of an old saloon in Oakland California
In Oakland California in 1880, so person salvaged the timbers from a derelict whaling ship at the foot of Webster Street, and a few yards away built a structure that for three years was a bunkhouse for men working the nearby oyster beds. Then in 1883 a young man named Jonny Heinold purchased the building for 100$ and with the help of a friend, who was ships carpenter, renovated the bunkhouse into the saloon that still stands, in much of it’s original form, to this day.

On the 8TH of December 1941, the U.S. Army formally opened The Oakland Army Base it’s had many names through the years, but it’s most commonly known as The Oakland Army Base.
For an Army Base this one would seem strange to many, few barracks, and the most notable feature would be the docks, so in many ways it resembled a Navy Base more than an Army Base.

The base may have looked like a Navy Base, but in it’s 58 year history, few if any Military ships ever put in at it’s docks, indeed few government owned ships did either, and for the most part the government owned ships that did had civilian crews.
One group of Merchant Ships that put in at The Oakland Army Base between the years 1941 and 1965 were converted passenger liners (not to be confused with cruise ships) passenger liners converted into troop ships.

I’m not sure if it’s still true today, but in Vietnam and before U.S. Soldiers were not allowed to carry U.S. greenbacks into war zones, so the Military issued “script”, which of course could be converted back into U.S. dollars upon return Stateside.
Contrary to the thinking of many, if not all, people who serve, the Army Brass is not stupid, and they knew that upon return to the U.S. most of the service men and women would want to enjoy life, and that enjoyment would involve a fair amount of drinking, and other forms of revelry.
So to try and keep this to a minimum it was usually a few days before Military folks could exchange their script for dollars.
But as Smart as the Brass may be, the Enlisted folk are smarter, so many would write their names on some money, perhaps a 1 or 2 dollar bill in ww2, maybe a five during Korea, a five or a ten in the early days of Vietnam, and give it to Jonny Heinold, who would pin it up on the back wall behind his bar, so that upon their return, they would simply have to walk over to Jonny Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon, retrieve their money, and enjoy the saloon’s hospitality, or perhaps one of the many women of negotiable virtue that inhabit Oakland’s waterfront.

So why is some of that money still there? You already know the answer to that, but it’s worth stating for the record.

They don’t all come home.

They’re made sacred not because they were superhero’s or so type of “Rambo” but because they weren’t, for the most part they average people, who when asked answered a call to do and see things no person should ever have to, and did extraordinary things.
In the end all they wanted was to do their duty and come home have a few beers with their comrades, and then go on with their lives, make their way in this world as best they could, for the people who have money left on the back wall of Heinold’s they never got that chance, they gave all they had and then some.

I’ll leave to those wiser and better educated than me to debate just or unjust wars, politics, or such. I’ll leave to artistic types to decide what a “proper memorial looks like.
For this blue collar bum, when I’m in Oakland, and I get in there often enough, I’ll always stop by Jonny Heinold’s Saloon, where I’ll drink my Bourbon neat, and always lift a glass to the wall behind the bar in honor of those, who came from farms, factories, schools mines, mills, or whathave you, answered a call and in so doing became extraordinary.

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Re: War Memorial on the back wall of a bar

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That is one of the most fitting war memorials of which I’ve ever seen or heard. Your sharing of it is much appreciated.

Basically, in every little VFW and American Legion across the country, there are any number of engraved plaques upon the walls honoring those locals who served in the armed forces during wartime. And always given paramount placement are the memorials for the dead. I try to make a point of reading them, if only to know their names for a minute and try to imagine there was a real person behind that name with a real life lost and a family survived who had to bare grief. It’s worth a moment of reflection, and no one ever looks at you weird when you raise your drink to where their names are posted in memoriam.
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