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Top Comments: Memorial Day Edition
It is Memorial Day here in the United States, and in all my years here at Top Comments I have never written a diary on this day. I have a number of relatives in my immediate family who served — my...
View ArticleDELUSIONAL Trump Imagines 'Thousands and Thousands of Boats' Worshiping Him...
This Memorial Day has suffered more than its share of political debasement by the pseudo-patriots at Fox News and other right-wing media exploitation factories. For them the day isn't about remembering...
View ArticleConservatives honor Lee Harvey Oswald on Memorial Day
I realize this might not meet the qualifications of a diary story, but I didn’t see any reference to it and you really should see it.‘Lee Harvey Oswald’ trends on Twitter after conservatives get punked...
View ArticleRep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) excoriates "the treacherous snakes" in his party
Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI-3) wrote some scathing words about pro-trump republicans in these 3 tweets on Memorial Day. I am not familiar with Meijer’s politics, but these are strong and gutsy words -...
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PWB Peeps: Toosdai Evening: In Which We Have Memorial Day Hangovers
Greetings! Welp, we had company in town over the weekend (we all now have our vaccines, yay!).Would you believe she’s getting a Catvid shot? (OK, not really, it’s a rabies shot, but same idea!)Since...
View ArticleThe Insanity of Doing Nothing
The Insanity of Doing NothingThis might seem unbelievable to the people who have only read some of my recent writings on this site, but I told myself near the beginning of the year to stop putting up...
View ArticleVeteran Memorial Day speaker in Ohio gets mic shut off when he highlights...
This is just appalling.Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kempter was the keynote speaker at an American Legion-sponsored Memorial Day event in northeast Ohio.Video of the event from public access channel...
View ArticleVictory! RE: Veteran's mic purposefully cut speech on Black people's role in...
You can’t make this stuff up, folks. Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter, a 77-year-old veteran, was asked to be the keynote speaker at a Memorial Day ceremony this week. The ceremony was hosted by...
View Article'This is not the same country I fought for': Veteran's mic cut at mention of...
A retired army lieutenant thought what any invited guest speaker might think when their microphone stops working, that a technological glitch was to blame. But when it happened to retired Army Lt. Col....
View ArticleLocal Politics - Memorial Day
Here is today’s article about Barrington, Rhode Island’s Memorial Day Parade and my response to what I think was a First Amendment overstep by a colleague (and a flat- out mischaracterization of my...
View ArticleMajor William W. Benson, USMC
A Grateful Memorial Day Remembrance.In “Last Man Off Wake Island” Lt. Col. Walter L.J. Bayler, a Battle of Midway veteran, remembered my uncle.“Major William W. Benson, USMC, of Springfield,...
View ArticleMemorial 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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