Let’s raise a hotdog and a beer to “heroes proved in liberating strife.” Sometimes the ideas and ideals that guided them were not as clearly focused as they could have been. We can argue endlessly about the merits of certain wars, about “foreign entanglements.” But what they hoped to achieve, at least by a broad brush treatment, was an objectively better state of affairs in the world. In our wrangles over the how, let’s not forget the why.
... and for America, at least until recently, it was a faith in a redeeming God that drove it.
This faith ebbed, and the result was the tragedy and the travesty of what we know as the Obama administration, but Obama was only its figure head. Not even Valerie Jarrett was the ultimate evil here. The ultimate evil was from hell.
It could be looked at as God testing the country to see how much wickedness it would tolerate falling into, before it accepts a recovery move.
It has become the practice around here to have a green porchlight in support of our Servicemen.
“.. against all enemies, foreign and domestic” Unfortunately, today the real enemy is more domestic than foreign.
When I was a kid it was called “Decoration Day” and we went to the cemetery and cared for and decorated the graves of our fallen heroes.
Thank you, Kaslin.
1-10th Cav...D troop...the Eyes and Ears of the 4th Division, Viet Nam ‘66-'71...My old unit...."Cav Ho....Scouts out"
On D Day between 8800-9000 men from the US and UK died in one day. There will always be an example of this was more costly than that, etc. The real issue to me about Memorial Day is how damn fortunate each and everyone of us is to have had men willing to fight England/ The British Empire to form this country/nation that we hold so dear. I am convinced that we must get back to the basics of what made this nation so great and unlike any other on earth. Our founding fathers had come here from England, Scotland, Denmark, plus most other European countries. They came here for religious freedom plus the new land and a new life. Most of us who have fought in war under this nation’s great flag use Memorial Day not as a long shopping weekend or a party weekend. We use this special day to pay our respects to our fellow man who was killed serving with us. And, I have never forgotten God’s grace/mercy to let me live several times when I never expected to. Lord, please watch over those of ours who are in harm’s way this Memorial Day. Please protect them and guide them home to their loved one’s safely. Amen.
We should move Memorial Day to July 3rd so people can see the connection between the sacrifices of those who died for our country with its independence.
Then maybe people won’t use it as an excuse to mark the beginning of summer.
This weekend I will be tossing a few back for my friend LCpl Michael J Hunt, HQ Btry, MT Plt, 5th Bn 11th Marines.
Like most of us who have earned the Eagle Globe and Anchor, Mike was a little twisted. He love the Beastie Boys and George Strait. He dipped Copenhagen like there was no tomorrow, and drove a stupid little lowrider Ford Ranger. The dude couldn’t have weighed more than a buck 50 but he thought he was King Kong. He was one of the best Marines I ever knew, and I’m proud that he called me friend and brother.