OK, pet peeve time.
Put the memorial back into Memorial Day. Stores like Macy's started this a long time ago with their Memorial Day sales events and then we started celebrating the day not where it fell on the calendar but stuck it on a Monday so as our spoiled culture could enjoy long weekends and then crowd the beaches like a bunch of sardines and not even swim in the water because it's still too cold. In a word, fun.
They did this with Washington and Lincoln, attached it to Saturday and Sunday and then just whitewashed the whole thing by calling it President's Day. Um, excuse me but we shouldn't honor all presidents like this, most of all Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. It's like they wanna break everything down from its original meaning. Kind of like a, ahem.....
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(calling Robodoon)
The ACTUAL Memorial Day is tomorrow, May 30th.
ReplyDeleteSay a prayer of thanks to those who we honor on Memorial Day.
Memorial Day should always be a time for somber reflection and on the evils and horrors of war and that it is sometimes necessary all the same. WAR should never be glorified the way WW2 vets sometimes swap war stories, there's nothing good about young lives cut short, lives full of hope and promise. It is not really needed to glorify soldiers than to honor and respect them. War ain't some Nintendo game the way some were treating Gulf War I. I'm no pacifist by any stretch but there's always that fine line we seem to miss.
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