Remembering Our Fallen: Virtual Wall of Remembrance
Remembering Our Fallen online initiative is a new “virtual wall” of remembrance designed to feature personal stories about war veterans and fallen or injured members from America’s Armed Forces. The Remembering Our Fallen initiative is a unique extension of the comprehensive website for the National Memorial Day Concert.
Viewers, or anyone who has lost a loved one to our nation’s conflicts, may submit video tributes or photographs as well as written remembrances in the form of a letter, story or even a poem to the National Memorial Day Concert website.
For those who request it, the remembrances will be hand-carried directly to the appropriate memorial site around Veterans Day. At each location – the World War II Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery (for the fallen buried there and those who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan) – there will be a remembrance ceremony including prayers by a member of the clergy and the playing of Taps by a military bugler from one of the branches of our armed forces. Remembering Our Fallen is designed to be a year-round initiative.
For more than two decades, the National Memorial Day Concert has united the country in remembrance of all our men and women in uniform, their families at home and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. The concert has built a loyal following of viewers around the country and attendees at the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol who return year after year to experience the concert.
Join us for the National Memorial Day Concert on May 29 at 8:00 PM on WCVE PBS live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in High Definition.
To our Dear Brother Gary,
You have been missed each day for over forty-four years now – but your sacrifice for Mom(75, D-2003), Mary(57), Bonnie(56), Lonnie(56), Laura(51) and Darryl(49) is honored by all of us and all your nieces and nephews and their children. They really do wish they had their UNCLE GARY - if only for a moment of time.
Time marches on and our LORD GOD the Great Creator – hallowed be his name. For you Gary, his kingdom has come and his will has been done here on earth and I pray for you in heaven.
I pray for the LORD and his will that we shall all gather someday where there is no dawn or sunset and we can continuously give thanks and heap praises to the King of Kings – OUR FATHER GOD.
May GOD bless each of us with his will here as it will be in heaven!
I LOVE YOU GARY may GOD bless you.
Until we meet in GLORY,
Lonnie
2 years ago my neice lost her soul-mate and his parents lost their baby boy in Afganistan. It was Rob's 3rd tour,(no that is a terrible term for it), Rob was in his 3rd rotation when an IED took his life. They will never forget and neither will I. God Bless all our troops. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I too lost my brother 44 years ago. Time moves on but the hole is forever burnished in our collective memories. We will never forget - WE CAN'T. May GOD our FATHER have plans for all of us that will remain unknown but have mercy on you and your loss forever until we meet again in GOD's GLORY.
I wore Major Ernest A. Olds'braclet for many years as his F4D Phantom from the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron was shot down by an armed convey in Vietnam about 15 miles south of MuRon Ma. He and Captain Albert E, Rodriquez became MIA's. Their remains of these two brave men have been found. my Grandfather Lt. Col Ralph A. Kluge and other members of the Army side of the family are buried in Arlington. My Grandfather Lt. Commander Timothy John Mulcahy is buried in Greenwood cementery San Diego. I served in the AF and Army and both my husbands are AF.My second husband, Colonel John Carl Thompson is a WW11 vet and proud of it. I,too,was proud to serve our country,America
Dad your sacrafice , along with many others before you and after you makes me one proud American. As I go through life any time I see our flag, my thoughts soar with respect and admiration for just what that symbol of freedom cost so many. God bless America!!!!
I could not believe what I was seeing and hearing when in the closing minutes of Memorial Day Program this evening we were suddenly cut away from a beautiful version of AMERICA (Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, etc.) to a pre-recorded program about pig races.
I hope to God it was a mistake.
And I think that every viewer and especial every veteran who was watching deserves the most contrite apology from your station.
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