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This post reflects on memory of those who served and died for our country. This week’s edition before Memorial Day 2024 honors them with displays of patriotic tributes witnessed at games over our storied history. Let’s cherish the memories and honors celebrated at college football games over the years. Many brave Americans made the ultimate sacrifices to allow the Freedom for college students to cherish and respect today. May students of today carry on such honorable traditions in the future.
Memorial Tribute: Wounded Warrior delivers US Flag to 2015 Military Bowl played by Cincinnati and Virginia Tech at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland.View of Freedom Tower from SUNY Maritime Rheinhart Field at 9/11 tribute in 2016 at dusk prior to game versus US Merchant Marine Academy of Kings Point, NY, only a few nautical miles away along the Long Island Sound.Liberty University students pose at halftime in tribute to Iwo Jima WWII Memorial during game against Louisiana on November 20, 2021.At UMASS, they still honor the Minutemen, the first fighters for American Freedom with their Continental Army Color Guard. This weekend of Memorial Day 2024, remember all this who made the ultimate sacrifice going all the way back to 1776.Music City USAF Flyover at Nissan Stadium before Auburn bombed Purdue leading, 56-7, at halftime in 2018.In Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, the Flag lands in front of the Brigade of Midshipmen before kickoff.The Cal Berkeley Golden Bears still play home games at California Memorial Stadium which opened in 1923. It was funded from public contributions as a memorial to Californians who lost their lives in World War I (1917–18).Named for Colonel Rutgers of the Continental Army and land donor to the University, Rutgers colonial gun crew swelters in the hot sun waiting for a score against New Mexico in September 2016. Huge flag unfurled covers entire playing surface before Military Bowl clash between Wake Forest and Temple, December 2016.TheSamford Bulldogs race on to Bobby Bowden Field following Old Glory to host SE Louisiana in FCS Playoffs in 2022.Annually, Boston College football plays a home game in honor of Welles Crowther, a former student and Lacrosse player who was well known for wearing a red bandana. He perished in The World Trade Center saving as many as 18 lives during the Sept. 11th attacks.Lone Flagman displays the colors in Lone Star State before the Tulsa-Houston game at TDECU Stadium in 2018.The Midshipmen ofNavy enter Navy-Marine Corps Stadium carrying multiple flags on Veterans Day 2016 to clash with Tulsa.My long-time Penn State friends, the Massimilla’s among others, honor America at Beaver Stadium before the Maryland game in 2021.Army Cadets of West Point at attention as Colors arrive from above before a game against Duke in Michie Stadium, 2015. President Dwight David Eisenhower and General Douglas MacArthur played football as Cadets.The reality of terrorism right here in downtown Nashville. This is why we pay tribute to those who died both here and abroad protecting our Freedom on Memorial Day 2024. Preparing to hoist the Colors at Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium where Veterans are remembered at every game.Navy jets traditional flyover in Annapolis before Air Force game in 2023.Purple Mountains Majesty pay tribute to America with Mother Nature in Logan, Utah prior to Hawaii at Utah State kickoff at Maverick Stadium in 2021.Military and First Responders honored at coin toss prior to kick-off between SUNY Maritime and MASS-Maritime on 9/11 Memorial.Brilliant, beautiful sunset at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium behind flag and USNA class monuments in foreground after high-scoring Navy-Houston battle on a stormy day.
