Happy Memorial Day DR

Along the same line....

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THE UGA FOOTBALL TEAM THAT NEVER WAS...
by Patrick Garbin

Shortly prior to the start of the 1917 football season, the University of Georgia decided the team's "time will be devoted to extensive military training" for the United States' involvement in World War I. The pictured 1917 Red and Black wouldn't set foot on a gridiron, and neither would the team in 1918. Football would finally resume at Georgia on October 4, 1919.

Of the 23 members on the 1917 team, including its head coach and an assistant, 17 were serving U.S. military service by the end of the 1917-18 academic year. Five members—Tom Reed Beasley, Elliot Muse Braxton, Walter Hill Levie, Macon Caldwell Overton, and Edmund Brewer Tate—would be killed during World War I. In 1937, during a benediction in remembrance of the football players who gave their lives for their country, Registrar Tom Reed unforgettably said:

“They are not dead.
For such as they… There is no death…
The stars go down to rise upon some fairer shore.”

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BDV...very nice sentiment. However, your post is best suited for Veteran's Day. There is nothing "happy" about Memorial Day. It is intended to be a day of rememberence for those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving our country in a combat. Not trying to be a $#ithead. Just that most seem to have forgotten the meaning.

No matter how everyone spends their time on this holiday whether it is boating, fishing, golfing, BBQ, drinking or hanging wreaths on tombstones at veteran cemetaries, pause for a moment and raise that frosty beverage of your choice and thank those who lost their lives so that we may live under this U.S. Constitution as a free people.