As a master baiter you would know!!!
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Ask him what branch of the military he served?
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A waste of time!
He, she, IT still lives in mommy’s basement!!!
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Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, was established to honor the dead from the Civil War. The holiday’s origin dates to April 25, 1866, when a former chaplain in the Confederate Army accompanied a group of women from Columbus, Mississippi, to Friendship Cemetery — the burial ground for about 1,600 men who died in the Battle of Shiloh — for the purpose of honoring the dead with decorations of flowers. At that time, Union Army forces occupied Columbus, like the rest of the South, and some townspeople feared they would create new animosity if the decorations favored Confederate over Union graves.
The prayerful Columbus women had no such intention despite having heard about the Union’s cavalier burial treatment of Confederate soldiers on northern battlefields. Their equal decoration of the graves of both sides became a catalyst for a national reconciliation movement. The New York Herald editorialized: “The women of Columbus, Mississippi, have shown themselves impartial in their offerings to the memory of the dead … strew[ing] flowers alike on the graves of the Confederate and of the Union soldiers.”
Memorial Day means more than remembering and honoring those who died in military service to the country. It means connecting with a heritage that began with a courageous and faithful group of founders, who risked everything for the birth of freedom and the establishment of America as a “city on a hill.” And it’s particularly appropriate in these trying times to remember that it was the spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation that renewed America after the divisive period of the Civil War when the nation suffered its greatest wartime destruction and loss of life.
Or maybe people today just want to grill a burger as that is all they want to know.
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This is a Gold Star father hugging his son’s gravestone. Understand what this father is going through. Not just on Memorial Day but every day. After seeing so many on the newsfeed saying Happy Memorial Day this needs to be seen. It is not a happy day for any Gold Star family. Stop saying it.
It’s not happy day for any parent who lost a child to war. Gold star or not.
No parent should out live their child.
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Two sobering observations after Memorial Day
It should have been a happy Memorial Day as a nation takes time to express gratitude for the freedoms our U.S. military personnel died in battle to preserve.
For their sacrifice, we honor and mourn them. We are only one generation from losing every freedom. There are scores of countries around the world that are living examples of that.
To commemorate the day, we watched a couple of war movies: Midway and To End All Wars. Ask young people what the Battle of Midway was. Odds are they can’t tell you. Why not?
There are increasingly people in our land who no longer consider the USA to be exceptional, or even good. Indeed, these people insist that our nation has been evil from its inception, racist, misogynist, and criminally corrupt, exploiting many to benefit a few.
You find these people in all segments of society and government. They mean to “fundamentally transform” America to correct what they consider to be evils. I’ll single out just one faction today: public schools.
In 1948, the National Education Association “locked in the anti-authoritarian theme as well as the spirit of revolutionary Marxism in American election circles,” according to B.K. Eakman in her book, Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality Through Education.
The NEA declared nationalism outdated and a hindrance to “progress” and world peace. To achieve this illusive nirvana, the public-school teachers’ union called for teachers to advocate in U.S. classrooms for a one-world government.
“Enduring peace cannot be achieved until the nation-states surrender to a world organization the exercise of jurisdiction over those problems with which they have found themselves unable to deal,” the NEA proclaimed.
The NEA said loyalty to a nation, adoption of patriotic songs, setting aside national holidays, “teaching the greatness of the nation’s heritage,” “use of uniform language,” “and establishment of schools where youth are taught patriotism and their duties to their native land” all constitute “a threat to world peace.”
Does that help understand why so few young people even know in what century the Battle of Midway took place?
The NEA is the nation’s largest labor union. It represents public school teachers; support personnel; faculty and staffers at colleges and universities; and, perhaps most important, “college students preparing to become teachers.”
Is it any surprise young people today can’t tell you that the Battle of Midway was the turning point of World War II’s war in the Pacific? Do they even know who the two sides were at Midway?
How many Americans groomed in government schools will enlist ?
The dofus continues the insanity, laughing.
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