Thursday, May 22, 2008

Memorial Day

Monday will be Memorial Day - when we remember all those of us who have died in the preservation of freedom.

By "us" I include men that I knew, whose names are carved upon The Wall.

By "us" I include those who went before me, in WW2, Korea, the 'Nam, WW1, and followed me in Panama, Greneda, and the Sand Box - all the wars and skirmishes that have preserved and protected the United States.

By "us" I include all those who fought and died with us - the Filipinos, Brits, Poles, Canadians, Viet Namese, Chinese, French, Belgian, Dutch, Kuwaiti, Norwegian, Danish, Czechs, and many more.

On this, our Memorial Day, I remember you all.

God Bless, and remember, so long as just one remembers, your spirit will never die...

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Holocaust Remembrance Day

During the time that I was growing up, and through my young adult-hood, the 1st of May meant the day that all of the Iron Curtain countries "celebrated" the Victory of The Masses over the Czars.

Now, it's a little different.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The day where I, an American citizen, a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP), get up on my hind legs and say, "Never Again".

You think I'm kidding you?

Just remember, all you haters, just remember who the greatest killers in the history of the world really are.

We really did flash Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Had we deemed it necessary, Berlin and Munich would have met the same fate.

So, Damascus and Tehran, do you really want to get frisky?

Do you?

And yeah, I'm feeling very cranky this evening. It's been a long week so far...