Western Massachusetts Tornado Images

This is a photostream of images June 3, 2 days after, of the tornado which struck Springfield Massachusetts and as many as 9 other communities. CBS NEWS reported its rating an F-3. These are not edited and some are taken from a n automobile due to traffic and pedestrian lmitations. They show destroyed buildings and homes, and clear paths of tree shearing in an area unaccustomed to such a type of disaster.
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Memorial Day [Decoration Day] USA

Where are all the men?
They've gone to War!
WIll they return?
They always return;
In Memory and in Life.

Remember Memorial Day USA

We do not know personally all these men and women today remembered. We remember what they did for our nation, that it may continue its values and its existence.
Today's fallen Americans, dead on distant shores, have returned from International Service for the United Nations with NATO, as a part of the contribution of the United States of America that other nations may so live as our people do.
May that Mission be noted for honoring the nation of Afgahnistan with our blood risked and spilled - not for conquest of any people, but to aid a government and a kindred liberty seeking people.
May they ever know and keep that liberty. May their fallen with ours sleep the rest of heroes who saved liberty and conferred it to others.
May they know heaven, and return to their countrymen that spirit which they have nobly represented.

Remember this day.

America's first memorial Day was proclaimed by President Abraham Lincoln in the first year of the United States Civil War.