I will be setting up our 1943 Ford Jeep for Church services on Sunday. Our little church is 90% Marines, so most members are just getting back from Irac, are now in Irac, or getting ready to go over. Even our back up pastor is a WWII Marine Raider. We will do the whole service from the hood of the jeep. We also stick 3 M1 Garands with bayonets in the ground with helmets from the 3 services during WWII about 30 feet from were the services are held. In side the church will be set up as a merorial with photos and artifacts. I fill up a couple of tables with my WWII guns and photos of my Dad (WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam). One lady puts several photos of her brother out. He was a very young Marine 2nd Lt. Took off from Guadalcanal in 1942 and was never seen again.
This will not be a 3 day week end for us, but a time to remember those who gave all for our tomorrows.
God Bless them all.
Not as lean, not as mean, but still a Marine. Frank