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Colorado State Open Thread, 5/28/2018, Memorial Day
This is a first for me — a Memorial Day where I get to memorialize my father as a member of the Armed Services, a WWII Navy photographer who passed away this last July at the ripe old age of 91....
View ArticleThe Memorial Day history forgot: The Martyrs of the Race Course
Republished and updated in honor of Memorial Day and the black union soldiers we should not forget —DOVA pencil drawing and a grainy photo in the Library of Congress are all that is left of the...
View ArticleMemorial Day: "For Them All"
The quote in the title of this diary is the dedication at the beginning of author/historian Cornelius Ryan’s meticulously researched book A Bridge Too Far, about Operation Market-Garden which took...
View ArticleMueller Flips Secretary Pig
It’s being reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has flipped Secretary of Gluttony Pig E. Bank. Mr. Pig was apprehended while being transported to Oligarch Medical Center by colluding GOP...
View ArticleWhat Trump Spin Forgets is: We Remember Memorial Day Every Day
Arguably, one thing our Left, Right and Center still have in common: it’s never about what we’re fighting about. It’s as imbalanced as gender income parity, as punishing as the wealthiest nation’s...
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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 FlagsWhat is for dinner? How are you doing? What is on your mind? If you are new to Street Prophets please join...
View ArticleTrump uses the memory of our fallen soldiers to brag about himself
Ancient people supposedly thought the Earth rested on the back of a turtle, which rested on the back of another turtle, which sat on yet another turtle, and on and on.And if you asked an ancient sage...
View ArticleBrothers in Arms
This is perhaps the most moving Vietnam story I’ve heard. It broadcast on Snap Judgment Saturday past. It’s a Vietnam story for sure - but more than that it’s a human story, a spiritual story, a story...
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Trump Wishes Families of Slain Soldiers a Happy Memorial Day. Then Gets Worse.
What the hell is wrong with you?xHappy Memorial Day! Those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today. Best economy in decades, lowest...
View ArticleTrump's ego recognizes no holidays: Every fallen patriot should be thankful...
Donald Trump started off Memorial Day with a tweet that remembered America’s fallen service members … by explaining just how everyone who ever died in defense of American liberty, would be so, so happy...
View ArticleMemorial Day-Observed
When I was a child, I remember my Grandma calling Memorial Day Decoration Day. She traveled out to the cemetery, named after her husbands family, with a flat of geraniums, ivy, soil, and fertilizer,...
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Commemorating the Civil War
The Memorial Day holiday was an outgrowth of “Decoration Day”, a commemoration of the Civil War.Gettysburg BattlefieldThe Civil War is now over 150 years old. In that stretch of time, the ways in which...
View ArticleTennessee Congressman Phil Roe Makes Memorial Day About Himself
Today, Memorial Day, the news wires are burning up with how our spiritually and morally tone-deaf POTUS managed to make the event about himself, tweeting about how “very happy and proud” he imagines...
View ArticleLet's Remember Decency on Memorial Day
Memorial Day commemorations go back to the years immediately following the American Civil War. “Decoration Day” events, the precursor to today’s Memorial Day, seem to have started in the Southern US...
View ArticleDid y'all see what REAL Americans tweeted on Memorial Day?
Feeling nostalgic about good times past and good times lost. Here is what real Americans say and do on Memorial Day.xWe can never truly repay the debt we owe our fallen heroes. But we can remember...
View ArticleMemorial Day 2018 - An Angry Reflection on Donald Trump's Remarks From a Veteran
I will keep this short because, when I first heard of Trump's remarks, I have to admit that I was consumed with anger and did not think I could restrain myself sufficiently to offer anything...
View ArticleSurprise, Donald Trump found a way to make Memorial Day about him
Since 1971 Americans have observed Memorial Day—a day meant to honor the people who have lost their lives fighting in the U.S. military. Many Americans observe Memorial Day by visiting cemeteries or...
View ArticleReflecting on Memorial Day
For me, Memorial Day means sacrifice and respect — two things that civilization’s periodic lapses into greed and aggression regrettably require us to demand.Recently there’s been talk about what it...
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Baseball Fan Takes Respect And Honor To A High Level For ROTC Cadet On A...
Last season, the Atlanta Braves dedicated a permanent seat of honor in their SunTrust Park Stadium, to the nations POW’s/MIA’s and to those servicemen and women killed in action. With it stands a...
View ArticleWhen it rains......
After 11 people were killed at the synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, Trump did not cancel his rally that night using a provably false reason."With what happened early today, that...
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