It's another case of a thread a year when one good thread would probably serve better.

Don't worry I shan't bump every Memorial Day thread like I did the Christmas or New Years ones (partly because the last time I commented on a thread like this one I was slagged off for suggesting war wasn't a good idea).

One of the bad sides of having an unmoderated Off Topic board is nobody cares about merging threads like these so they become annual stump shrines rather than snowballing into interesting topics.

This is my last word in this thread as I'm bound to be accused of picking on Warb or being disrespectful of the dead or mocking rabid nationalism or something.