For Memorial Day: The Highest and Purest Democracy
A submission for Memorial Day weekend:The Highest and Purest Democracy: Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn's Iwo Jima Eulogy to his Fallen ComradesRoland Gittelsohn was a Marine Corps chaplain in World War II,...
View ArticleThis Memorial Day, let's include our front line workers!
This Memorial Day has me grateful to be alive.The men on my father's side of my family tree have served in the military. My father and his brothers have seen combat. More specifically, My father has...
View ArticleMemorial Day Lessons in this 2020 Pandemic
Before we flood back out into the world over Memorial Day of 2020 to remember our fallen soldiers, let’s remember the fallen in this viral war we are fighting today. If you plan to head out to the...
View ArticleEarly Memorial Day party shows just how toothless Missouri social distancing...
Crowds packed Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks Saturday, kickstarting a dangerous Memorial Day weekend during the coronavirus pandemic, and social media users definitely took notice. Lake of the Ozarks...
View ArticleTrump's idea of leadership is apparently golfing Memorial Day weekend without...
As of lately, President Donald Trump has been pretty committed to thoughtfully driving the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, except when he’s tweeting, golfing, or breathing, of course....
View ArticleSpread, Baby, Spread: The Vision of Donald Trump
Until this weekend I was under a false impression.I kept thinking that any suggestion that Trump had done a decent job with COVID-19 was a terrible joke. That anyone who was saying so, wasn't just...
View ArticleCOVID-19 cluster tied to Arkansas pool party after governor brags about...
Just last month, Arkansas’ Republican governor was defending his decision to forego a statewide stay-at-home order as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Now that a high school swim party was linked...
View ArticleMemorial Day – Opening Up The Shallow End Of The Gene Pool
Americans have finally gotten back their God-given freedom! After months of being ordered to stay at home and to social distance, it’s time to partay!Crowds all over the country are packing pools,...
View ArticleVietnam: An Unlisted Casualty's Homecoming
John and Roger Dale Lee, cousins of mine and each other who were inseparable friends over the summers when I was growing up, and all three of us joined my uncle Frank Lee in the milking parlor of...
View ArticleMemorial Day's Assignment - Three Words
In the age of the coronavirus pandemic, with a cascade of death all around us, it would be easy to give a slight miss to commemorating Memorial Day here in America this year. 100,000 deaths in only a...
View ArticleI Remember
An Uncle I never got to know rests somewhere among the 9,388 American dead at Normandy. He was the youngest of 4 boys my Grandmother sent off to war. He was barely 19 years old on D Day. He survived...
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We Remember Vietnam on Memorial Day 2020
Today on Memorial Day we are at war, with ourselves, over a hidden enemy. One we cannot see or touch. Such was true during the Vietnam War, when millions of draft age men were radicalized. We realized...
View Article"In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire"
Most people know Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. as a distinguished Supreme Court Justice. But as a young man he served in the Union Army in our Civil War, with one distinguishing act being his quite...
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Street Prophets Coffee Hour: Memorial Day
In today's Open Thread / Coffee Hour all topics of conversation are welcome.Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it...
View ArticleAround the Block: Nero fiddled while Rome burned; Trump tweets while...
On Memorial Day we spend time remembering those who lost their lives and could not come home, reflecting on their service, a service that has given us the luxury of freedom that we enjoy today. It is...
View ArticleGone Fishing: Beats Beating Divisive GOP Drum for Duplicitous Trump
I have a most handsome Pomeranian who arrived quite aggressively, but by invitation, three years ago, to the great displeasure of our then, four-year-old Chi-Poo, until then, free to solo herd me with...
View ArticleDefining "Hero" on Memorial Day
As a veteran from 40 years ago myself, I was thinking the other day that lately the word “hero” has been tossed around again as much as the word “awesome” is today by the kids. Personally, the term...
View ArticleJoe Biden, showing up the "President "
I just saw this short Article, in the New York Times. I think it is a perfect answer to president dipshit's behavior today. This is what we will get, if the presumptive nominee, Joe Biden, wins the...
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Pause. Reflect. Remember. Honor.
I was a college student when I was called back from reserves to active duty. The war broke in the middle of spring semester and we rushed to the northern border with little time to prepare for the long...
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For Memorial Day 2021, how about we get rid of the rest of the Confederate...
This is an updated reprise of a previous Memorial Day essay.Georgia State Flag, 1956-2001The year my mother moved the two of us out of southwest Georgia—1956—was the same year the legislature there...
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