Memorial Day

Re: Memorial Day

feeds@yuku.com (MP1978) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:49:28 GMT

The correct term for the rifle I mentioned is P-15. They were at least used by an Ali...Jim

Re: Memorial Day

feeds@yuku.com (Alibi) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:29:06 GMT

Although in movies KIAs are marked with their own or a handy helmet and rifle, it would make sense on a battlefield to use captured equipment to temporarily mark the body(s) for graves registration people. I think it might have seemed offensive to troops on the battlefied to use enemy equipment rather than "American" equipment for this purpose, so the VA display may carry an offensivness that is counter to a sense of propriety by Americans even in the contingency on a...

Re: Memorial Day

feeds@yuku.com (MP1978) — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:31:54 GMT

The ingnorance in this instance was my local Veterans Administration officials. The Administrator of the Ocala, Fl. branch of that office told me "They couldn't get a correct rifle because nobody wanted to let them use one of their collectable rifles because, Those rifles were worth a lot of money." He also stated " We only get one or two complaints a year about it so we continue to use that rifle." I just thought it was insulting to a Pacific Theater veteran. I've...

Re: Memorial Day

feeds@yuku.com (7GREEN) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:01:31 GMT

You're not being anal about it (I am tired of that word), rather like so many of us you have an eye for details and insist that things be depicted correctly. I found a website a few years ago that showed reenactors in France at a commemoration of the Battle of the Somme. I noted that some of the "Tommies" had No. 4 Mark Is instead of the correct SMLEs (the No. 1 Mark III designation was not adopted until 1926) and some of the French soldiers were in the 1914 uniform of blue...

Re: Memorial Day

feeds@yuku.com (m1 talker) — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:40:14 GMT

Hell, that just shows the ignorance of the people putting it on! They don't get the idea that details like this are very important and I doubt any of them ever wore a uniform of the US military. To me, its the little things like this that either make or break any ceremony. I would consider what you saw an insult to OUR vets. Others may think differently and say it is simply the thought that counts. Believe what you wish, but that is my opinion and I will stick with it. I would even loan...

Memorial Day

feeds@yuku.com (MP1978) — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:08:13 GMT

I went down to my local Memorial Day activities and most everything was as it should be but I noticed one thing I felt was out of place. On a presentation to honor American WWll Vets the rifle used in the presentation, under the American helmet and impaled into the ground, on it's bayonette, was an Arisaka. That particular rifle could have been used to take an American soldiers life. In my way of thinking an American m/1915, m/1917, m/1903 or m-1 of either type would have been way more...