Memorial Day in America
What’s become the official kick-off of summer, when you can officially start wearing white again and and buy a mattress cheap in a big blow-out holiday sale (are mattresses ever not on sale?) is...
View Article05/30 - Memorial Day
I'm just going to quote da wiki here regarding Memorial DayMemorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day[1]) is a federal holiday in the United States for mourning the U.S. military personnel who...
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Street Prophets Coffee Hour: Memorial Day
n today's Open Thread / Coffee Hour all topics of conversation are welcome.Memorial Day FlagsWhat is for dinner? How are you doing? What is on your mind? If you are new to Street Prophets please join...
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The Justice Dept on Netroots Radio Presents: "The Inevitable Retaliation...
I'm Special Agent DJ Justice, Radio Host and Managing Partner for Netroots Radio and I'm manning the dials, spinning the discs, warbling the woofers, putting a slip in your hip and a trip to your...
View ArticleThe sick feeling I get every Memorial Day
I try to watch Memorial Day pageantry every year. In fact, it’s my birthday weekend and I always felt like a Memorial Day birthday gave the holiday extra significance. Parades, speeches, cemeteries,...
View ArticleThe Memorial Day history forgot: The Martyrs of the Race Course
It has become a Daily Kos tradition for me to republish this Memorial Day story I first wrote in 2014. I have ancestors, Black and white, who fought for the Union during the Civil War. This is posted...
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Top Comments: Memorial Day Weekend 2022 Edition
The juxtaposition of what Memorial Day commemorates with how the vast majority of Americans spend the day is always jarring to me. Memorial Day honors those who died while serving in our Armed Forces...
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"Taps" - Day Is Done ...
One of our nation’s most recognizable melodies is the haunting 24-note tune that’s traditionally played at military funerals, flag-raising and wreath-laying ceremonies known as Taps.Today, Memorial...
View ArticleRemembering the fallen.
Those 1.5 million Americans may not have been in the military, but they died because of the belief that Americans may need to violently overthrow the government, and so in my opinion the only...
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They died. All We Have to do is Vote. Memorial Day Thoughts.
On Memorial Day 1997, my wife and I were in a town called Saint Avold on France’s Eastern Border with Germany. I was researching the life of my Great Uncle, Dr. Israel Schaechter (1873-1949), who lived...
View ArticleBlack Music Sunday: Honoring those who served and died for a country that...
This Memorial Day weekend, I’m thinking about my Black ancestors who fought and died for this nation in every war. I think about those who served and lived to tell the tale. They came home to die a...
View ArticleThe Memorial Day history forgot: The martyrs of the race course
It has become a Daily Kos tradition for me to republish this Memorial Day story I wrote in 2016. Some of the links and text has been updated. I have ancestors, Black and white, who fought for the Union...
View ArticleA Memorial Day Prayer for 2023
Dear Lord,On this day honoring the brave men and women who gave their lives defending our nation’s democracy, we pray you do not allow our nation fall to the forces of the Christian Taliban and...
View ArticleDemocrats were on fire in the House on Thursday
The nation could be thrown into default on June 1 if Congress doesn’t act to raise the debt ceiling, or if President Joe Biden fails to act unilaterally. Despite the tight deadline, despite there being...
View ArticleBaseball Thoughts for Memorial Day (~1/3 of the way into 2023)
We’re headed into Memorial Day Weekend. The 3 summer holidays play a bit of a mile-marker role in baseball:By Memorial Day, it’s no longer “early”. For some teams it might even be getting “late”By...
View ArticleAs we head into Memorial Day Weekend: Sabaton's cover of Motorhead's "1916"
Howdy folks. We’re heading into a holiday weekend dedicated to remembering those members of the military that we’ve lost, either through war or through simple passage of time. For myself, that includes...
View ArticleMy Father's Flag
I often find myself thinking about my father, especially during Memorial Day weekend. It's a time when we come together to celebrate our country and honor the fallen who fought in wars to protect and...
View ArticleDKos Asheville Open Thread: Theater, Grindfest, Keeping Asheville Weird, and...
Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville Open Thread for Saturday, May 27th, 2023.This space appears each weekend to give readers a variety of links to local and...
View ArticleMemorial Day - Another One of My Rants
Memorial Day. This is the time we customarily set aside for the purpose of remembering the friends, relatives, neighbors and fellow citizens both living and deceased who served in the United States...
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Street Prophets Memorial Day Coffee Hour
This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. What is for dinner? How are you doing? What is on your mind. If you are new to Street Prophets please introduce yourself...
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Trump compares himself to fallen soldiers in a Memorial Day social media rant.
Donald Trump compared his federal and civil crimes to the fallen soldiers who sacrificed their lives to serve this country that, because of him, now teeters on the edge of fascism. In a rant on Truth...
View ArticleAn Apology, A Possible Explanation and a Poll. The Colorado State Open...
The Colorado State Open Thread is dedicated to those with an interest in Colorado and everything to do with our state. On this Memorial Day, I wish to honor and memorialize those who made the ultimate...
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Itzl Alert Network: Tuesday, 30th of May, 2023: The day after Memorial Day
Welcome, my friends! This is the dog called Itzl.As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things...
View ArticleBring Back Required Service to Our Country
No American should be required to devote their last full measure of devotion for their country. Yet no American should shirk that responsibility.I came of age in the era of Kent State 1970. I hit my...
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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Memorial Day
So we never forget that freedom isn’t free.A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul.Please do share pics of your fur...
View ArticleComing Soon: Trump's Losers' Day
Losers' Day. It may be coming up sooner than you think.This next Monday, for now, is still called “Memorial Day,” and is set aside to recognize those who have paid the ultimate price in service to our...
View Article1.3 Million Have Died in America’s Wars. For What Did They Make Their...
By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.com, editor@news-photos-features.comAt Memorial Day commemorations, it is inevitable that speakers will declare that the 1.3 million who have died fighting in...
View ArticleThe Memorial Day history forgot: The martyrs of the race course
It has become a Daily Kos tradition for me to republish this Memorial Day story I wrote in 2016. Some of the links and text has been updated. I have ancestors, Black and white, who fought for the Union...
View ArticleYou are the dream of Many ancestors
With Decoration day weekend here it seems right to reflect. Just as Memorial Day has come to mean less about the past and more about the start of summer, there is no reason not to expand true meaning...
View ArticleIt is Remembering Memorial Day...Not Happy Memorial Day. Keep that in mind...
We are in Memorial Day Weekend. Please be aware of greetings on this holiday. We can say Happy Veterans Day in November but Memorial Day is different. For combat vets, it is disturbing for most...
View ArticleCartoon: Announcing Trump's VP Pick!
I’ve been pondering this since Haley got on TV the other day and said Rump was “not perfect,” but she would be voting for him. I got as far as “coward,” and “power hungry b—,” but then I decided that...
View ArticleMemorial Day Weakened (i.e. Trumped)
Right about now, Lady Liberty and Uncle Sam need all the help they can get. With the brigadier of “bone spurs” riding high in the polls, let’s hope to see, through Monday and at least until early...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: UNC nixes DEI requirements, Felon voting law...
Welcome. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. The platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics a place to share their knowledge, insight and inspiration as we take back our...
View ArticleMY GREEK FRIEND
I woke up this morning to my Apple News feed and saw a refreshing article from the Atlantic Magazine, WHAT MONASTIC MYSTICS GOT RIGHT ABOUT LIFE. What appealed to me most about this article were two...
View ArticleDonald Trump's name for Memorial Day
In my Facebook days, it’s been my experience that when I quoted something that some jerk said, I was often berated by people on my own side who mistakenly assumed that I was in agreement with whatever...
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Memorial Day
Memorial Day - Thank You.How To Vote. Democrat, Of Course!Gov't And Social Services Links For ♥All Our Troops♥ And Veterans♥The Hero's JourneyRepublican Senators-Stop Ignoring, Immigration Reform. DACA...
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Top Comments: A Twitter (X) Thread for Memorial Day Weekend
Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by...
View ArticleHonoring Our Veterans This Memorial Day and Rallying Support for a Brighter...
As we approach Memorial Day, we take a moment to honor and remember the brave men and women who have given their lives in service to our country. Their ultimate sacrifices have ensured the freedoms we...
View ArticleA Memorial Day Observation
If you are flying the flag today while supporting the return to office of a man who called our fallen soldiers suckers and losers, you are not honoring our fallen. You are slapping them right in the...
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Memorial Day Open Thread
This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. What is for dinner? How are you doing? What is on your mind. If you are new to Street Prophets please introduce yourself...
View ArticleAn homage to my dad (and mom), his 3 brothers and another uncle, who all...
My father was the youngest of four brothers: my Uncle Sidney was the oldest. My dad and Uncle Sidney were the only ones who went to college, and my dad had to take off a “work” year, so he could afford...
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MAGA celebrates Memorial Day: Trump calls Americans "scum", MTG wears a...
In 1868, John A. Logan, Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, declared May 30 as a day to honor fallen Union soldiers. Since then, what people had once known as“Decoration Day”expanded...
View ArticleSURPRISE! Trump Makes Memorial Day All About Himself, Attacking Judges in His...
For as long as Donald Trump has been a public figure, he has been known as a compulsive self-promoter. There is virtually no subject that he won't hijack as an opportunity to shamelessly exalt himself...
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Secretariat's Comeback; RIP Bill Walton — The Week in Editorial Cartoons,...
I will post more editorial cartoons in the comments section and if new ones go online tonight, possibly as manual updates to this diary. I had written Part 2 several days ago and will try to post it...
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Top Comments: When Not Having a Memorial Day Parade Is Patriotism Edition
As i write this early Monday evening, another Memorial Day is drawing to a close. I am very lucky that of all the members of my family who served in our armed forces, none that I have yet discovered...
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Lessons From Vietnam and a Memorial Day Message
The best way, as I see it, to pay respects to our war dead going back all the way to the Revolutionary War days, is to reduce or eliminate the number of future wars.Above is the Vietnam War Memorial as...
View ArticlePresident Biden honors our soldiers past and future, defendant Trump whines...
The contrast between President Biden’s thoughtful and appropriate Memorial Day remarks and defendant Donald Trump’s petty and vengeful remarks tangentially related to the long standing observance is as...
View ArticleICYMI: Alito’s excuses, Republicans’ humiliation, and who wants more Elon Musks?
Here’s how voters can combat the media’s pro-Trump biasNever underestimate the power of influencing others.Trump in 2016: 'Drain the swamp!' Trump in 2024: 'Fill 'er up'Just when you think Trump...
View ArticleHappy whatever, you losers and scum: 11 years of Trump's holiday wishes
Sunday was Father’s Day. As might be expected for a holiday devoted to putting things on the grill and trying to figure out where to display a child’s paper-mache artwork, President Joe Biden offered...
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