Memorial Day

 

1. What I wanna know is why it it in the middle of the month, instead of the end like, you know, it used to be.
   Just because the following monday is June?
   Stupid.
      

   Posted by Rich K       05/24/2015  at  12:27 PM  



2. May all fowl and evil things befall certain idiots.  My they never be remembered fondly, if at all.  May their rot continue through the eternities, removed from the sight of God and the history of man kind.

   Posted by grayjohn       05/24/2015  at  12:44 PM  



3. Now I’ve vented my rage.  I’m keeping a thought for the Skipper today. Was just looking at the archives.  RIP Allan.

   Posted by grayjohn       05/24/2015  at  06:56 PM  



4. You are correct. Memorial Day is a time to honor better people than that SCoaMF could ever hope to be.

   Posted by CenTexTim       05/24/2015  at  09:18 PM  



5. My daughter and I are headed to the cemetery to make sure there is a flag on the grave of Army Air Corps Cadet Carl Geoffry Stridsberg, KIA 13 August 1942 - my Uncle. And we will stop at the other cemetery to see my Dad’s family plot since the 24th was my Mom’s 99th birthday (ok, anniversary of). You know - my Mom has a clipping (several pages) of the Cincinnati WWII dead - why, oh why can’t the papers, news and other media do things like that? Instead we are getting bbq tips and pathetic reruns (so that no one has to work at the zillion cable channels - heaven forbid that they miss such an important ‘holiday’).

   Michelle Malkin has a good post on the history of Memorial Day.

   I hope we make it before the rain hits - but that’s a little inconvenience for a man who died at 25. I also can’t imagine my Mom’s take on WWII since a year later (Sept 1943) my Dad went on active duty in the Navy - she must have been a basket case - as her other brother was in West Point at the time, too. Somehow - I feel we are headed to those dark days yet again - maybe this will be Obama’s legacy - WWIII.

   Posted by wardmama4       05/25/2015  at  07:47 AM  



6. Belated Memorial Day turnin; Last few days have been a bit troubleosme, but yesterday was good. Spent time drafting a letter to my Grandparents (Granddad’s a WWII veteran), being shanghaied into playing cards with my parents, and handling the grill for three of the largest steaks I’ve ever seen.*

   I still wish we celebrated the day on its’ original time, rather than just because it makes a convenient holiday (After all, isn’t the spirit of this day not doing what is convenient for us civvies, but going out for Them?). But with the schedule so packed with job hunting for us… I’m not sure we’d have the time.

   Still, it’s a new day. And as much as I HATE Mother Jones I think she had an appropriate quote here. “Remember the dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living.”

   Well said, you old crone… well said.

   * And that’s not an empty classifier., BELIEVE ME. I have known a LOT of big steaks…

   @wardmama4

   Somehow - I feel we are headed to those dark days yet again - maybe this will be Obama’s legacy - WWIII.

   I think we were headed for them one way or another. But the big problem I see is that Obama’s legacy will be- like Chamberlain’s and Baldwin’s and the rest- worsening and deepening it before it is done.

   Posted by Turtler       05/26/2015  at  02:21 PM  

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