from the combox:
Memorial Day is truly a day to honor our veterans, but it is also a day to pay respect to anyone close to us who has passed on, whether they be relatives, friends, etc. Perhaps our current president is confusing Memorial Day with Veterans Day?
I agree re: being chided once again for not measuring up. Rather than admonishing and wagging his finger at the rest of us, he should first check his own long laundry list of things he has done wrong, and continues to do wrong. We are to first check the mote in our own eye, which based on his political history so far, is about the size of a ponderosa pine. One Bead Short of a Rosary
Well said One Bead....
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NO NO NO NO NO
it is a day to honor Veteran's who have DIED in service to our country.
It actually has nothing to do with anyone else.
from wikipedia
"Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 25 in 2009). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the civil war), it was expanded after World War I to include American casualties of any war or military action."
more info can be found here
http://www1.va.gov/opa/speceven/memday/history.asp#hist
and don't forget to raise your flag briefly to full mast at sunup..then lower it to half mast till noon. at noon you raise it to full for the rest of the day!!!
if you know of someone who's lost a Veteran, Monday is a special day to thank that survivor for the loss of their loved one...and to remember all our fallen heros!!
I will add that if you want to remember all your loved ones who have died, the appropriate time to do that is All Saint's Day. Not Memorial Day.
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