I’ll be out doing Memorial Day activities today – honoring those who died for this country – and by extension, those who didn’t – as well as some of the regular “beginning of summer” stuff for which today is mostly synonymous these days.
But lest anyone forget – or just need a new reminder – I found this thread, by a former USMC public relations officer, alternately funny and deeply affecting:
Back to regular blogging – i.e., trying to make this a country and civilization worthy of all that sacrifice – tomorrow.
Thanks for this, Mitch.
I visited several graves out at Fort Snelling this weekend. My dad and mom, two of my high school classmates, my sister’s father in law, all of the CMOH recipients, Captain Tim Vakoc (a chaplain mortally wounded in Mosul), Charles Lindbergh, a flag raiser at Iwo Jima and Private Tracie McBride, who was raped and murdered by an Army veteran. That hit me the hardest of all of them.
No American serviceman has died protecting America for more than 80 years.
That’s the real tragedy.
The lights are going out all over our past. We shall not see them lit again.