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T-Shirts
available NOW for the Memorial Day Boat Parade. $10.00 for all
sizes!!
Order form here
or buy one at the BBQ at 5 P.M. following the parade.
Saturday, May 27, 2006 - Memorial
Day Boat Parade. Jet
Ski's join in!
Flags and Banners available
for
F.O.R. San Bernard. Order your flag or banner
here.
Two
news articles about the boat parade in The Facts
here.

If you fly a Texas flag,
be sure
to fly it with
"blood to the ground".
No flag should fly above the U.S.
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WWII Nurses Remembered
As we prepare for
our Memorial Day Boat Parade, I would like to offer a Memorial
Day tribute to a little-known group of “all volunteer” WWII
heroes—the Nurses of WWII. These WWII Nurse heroes endured
torpedoes, bombings, and Japanese prison camps—67 of the nurses
were captured by the Japanese as they nursed the war wounded in
the caves on Corregidor Island. Six other WWII Nurses are buried
beside their patients at Anzio. The Nurses of WWII served at
Pearl Harbor, Corregidor, Anzio, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo
Jima, and all over the world. Two Hundred Seventeen WWII nurses
are buried in US cemeteries overseas. The military honors (even
though many entered duty with no basic military training)
received by the WWII nurses include the following:
Distinguished
Service Medal
Silver Star
Soldier’s Medal
Bronze Star Medal
Air Medal
Army Commendation Medal
Purple Heart
Most of the WWII
Nurses are no longer alive but their legacy and memory will
live as long as we remember them. Please pause, and remember
with me, as we proudly stand and salute the nurses of WWII in
recognition of a job well done.
Marie Breakiron
Contact Marie
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