This is extremely well done. The Gettysburg Address animated with sound effects. Found at Vimeo.

When I went searching for some appropriate Memorial Day video at Google Video and YouTube, all I really found were vacation videos of people’s Memorial Day weekends or Support Our Troops! tributes as if there’s someone out there who does not support them. What I didn’t find was any Memorial Day video that did justice to the holiday.

But then I thought IFILM will have something and of course it did. The thing that IFILM does better than any other video sharing/search site is they know how to categorize. Their Channels make finding video by theme simple. And one of the best things about the site is their WarZone Channel with  conflict-specific video and, best of all, their Soldier Upload section with clips taken by our current troops.

They include the hilarious Iraqi Olympics…

And the horrific experiences of the Deuce Four unit (chronicled by Michael Yon):

This is a trailer for an HBO documentary called Unknown Soldier: Letters to and from Home directed by John Hulme about his father Lieutenant Jack Hulme, a Marine who days before he was to depart to see his newborn son, was killed in Vietnam:

No Memorial Day would be complete without a reading of the most profound and transformative memorial to the war dead in our nation’s history, Abraham Lincoln‘s Gettysburg Address (read the Pulitzer Prize winning Lincoln At Gettysburg by Gary Wills for an analysis and history of the speech). Found  at YouTube from  arthurb:

Finally, listen to Taps as performed by SGM Woody English, US Army Band, on a B-flat Bach Stradivarius field trumpet.

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