#CBSSundayMorning had a great piece yesterday abt the performing arts center opened in Ground 0 area which has been largely built due to $$ donated by Mike Bloomberg.

Bloomberg gave a tour & is clearly very proud of it. What a marvelous multi dimensional building which can convert to numberous differnt stage & venue types.

Now, there's a place to mourn the 9/11 vicitms and a beautiful place to celebrate life w/ art!

I think they would be happy about that!

#September11 #RememberThem

@PollyWaugh
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#SayTheirNames
Angela Michelle Carr, 52, who was shot in her car;
store employee A.J. Laguerre, 19, who was shot as he tried to flee,
customer Jerrald Gallion, 29, who was shot as he entered the store, which is in a predominantly Black neighborhood.

I have three vehicles, each with a couple Gold Star Family license plates on them for my boy, Ryan, who would be 37 this 1 June had he not been KIA in Iraq. This plate is on the front of my ‘93 Ford F-150 XLT.
#MemorialDay
#RememberThem

Never forget: it’s an absolutely gorgeous evening here on deck, Memorial Day weekend 2023 just about in the books. For many. This version of The Offspring’s “Gone Away” is another that hits home for me because the nightmares I’ve had about Ryan David’s loss have images of the after effects of an IED detonation similar to the one that killed him.
#MemorialDay
#RememberThem
#FiveFingerDeathPunch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BIQK4-9YFW0

Never forget: it’s an absolutely gorgeous evening here on deck, Memorial Day weekend 2023 just about in the books. For many. This version of The Offspring’s “Gone Away” is another that hits home for me because the nightmares I’ve had about Ryan David’s loss have images of the after effects of an IED detonation similar to the one that killed him.
#MemorialDayEveryDay
#RememberThem
#FiveFingerDeathPunch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-I-j-ehNUlo

I’d like to share this in dedication to those of whom we owe a debt that we can never repay. Thank You 🇺🇸
#RememberThem #HonorThem #MemorialDay #Freedom

https://youtu.be/GMfvYxK9Zoo

I’d like to share this song in dedication to those of whom we owe a debt we can not ever repay. Thank You 🇺🇸
#RememberThem #HonorThem #MemorialDay #Freedom

https://youtu.be/PLEYPAhvQW4

Not a huge fan of the Black Rifle Coffee Company but for Memorial Day 2018, they produced one of best Memorial Day videos I’ve ever seen. It truly hit home for me.
#MemorialDay
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https://fb.watch/kPPS8bxj2S/?mibextid=YCRy0i

I hadn’t yet seen “Blackhawk Down” as of that day in 2004 in Mosul when I was assigned to shoot b-roll footage at a memorial for the families of two soldiers who were with the U.S. Army’s First Brigade, 25th Infantry Division and KIA in Mosul on 4 December. On arrival, there was a video of the two men and their families with this song. I ultimately produced. To me, it’s one of Hans Zimmer’s finest pieces he’s composed for a film soundtrack.
#MemorialDay
#RememberThem

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-3Wg5LppXk&fbclid=IwAR2B1AVxJ8-2r5-geOBOZDOlJn1dfA0ngITWJ6lI_Og9PO9y9S-ob69oY7g&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

One of, in my opinion, the best Memorial Day memes ever. It’s also one that applies for me on many more evenings out here on deck.
#MemorialDay
#RememberThem

A friend of mine who was deployed to SW Asia with the unit that in 2006 replaced my son Ryan’s unit doing convoy security missions into Iraq and was at my son’s memorial service. He produced this video a few years ago.
#MemorialDay
#RememberThem

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2344354785585771&id=100000338179341&mibextid=YCRy0i

I went to Washington, D.C. on a Never Forgotten Honor Flight out of Mosinee, Wisconsin’s Central Wisconsin Airport in May, 2015, in a media capacity. As a Gold Star dad I gravitated toward the "Freedom Wall" at the WW2 memorial. It's a display of nearly 4,050 Gold Stars signifying the loss of 100 U.S. service members per star in WW2. A little more than 400,000 U.S. military personnel, most of them killed in action, during that conflict. #MemorialDay
#RememberThem

Countdown to Memorial Day: I don’t drink to excess ondeck on some these gorgeous northern Wisconsin evenings but a glass is raised quite frequently to my boy, Ryan David Jopek, and Mark Phelan, who I knew in Iraq in 2004 and also, like Ryan, KIA there. For all of them.
#MemorialDay
#RememberThem

Walter took third place in the category for “Trucks 1950 to 1969” at the Wheels, Wings and Watercraft Show yesterday which is cool but, as I’ve mentioned before in previous years, letting people who would like to hear the story of Ryan and Walter is way better than any physical award, be it first or third place.
#MemorialDay
#RememberThem

At the car show yesterday where I had my son’s ‘66 Chevy C-10 pickup, restored after Ryan was KIA in Iraq, on display.

“Is that your son?” some ask, looking at photos of Ryan. “Ryan’s my oldest boy,” I say. “He didn’t get to see it this way. He’d be here to tell you all about Walter if he could. It’s his baby.”
“What a beautiful tribute to him,” they reply. “Thank you for sharing.”
#MemorialDay
#RememberThem

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"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them."

#LestWeForget #RememberThem #RemembranceDay