MEMORIAL DAY 2011

What can one say about Memorial Day that has not already been said?

The Weekend has become a holiday weekend, one to enjoy time off form work, form routine.
It is a time to reconnect…if one has been disconnected…a time to kick back, unless you are in serious retail…
And for some it is a time to carouse and get smashed and the like, if we are to believe the msm reports that police will be out in force on roads and lakes to do their best to keep folks from killing and maiming themselves whilst acting like ill-behaved kids.

In past years I have quoted poets and others who have said this or that…and at times I have tried to develop some creative thought or two.

This time I poured a couple of fingers of Jack Daniels and lit a cigar and opened up a six-hundred page book of the wisdom of Winston Spencer Churchill.

Be it known that he qualifies as an expert on a lot of grounds, but two of ‘em are that he is ½ American and a combat veteran of many, many wars.
And he is a genius.
A renaissance man if there ever was one.

‘Nuff said.

Two quotes will suffice.

The first one has to do with the mission, once war has begun:

Once you are so unfortunate as to be drawn into a war, no price is too great to pay for an early and victorious peace.

The second quote has to do with those who have perished whilst in service:

There is really no limitation to the number of different ways in which the desire to show reverence and affection to the memory of the fallen, and to preserve that memory, have manifested themselves. But the great mass of those who fell could not indulge in expensive monuments, and the thing that is deeply ingrained in soldierly breasts is that all should be treated alike, general and private, prince and peasant, all who lie there in common honour, and that the wealthy should forgo in this matter that which their wealth would enable them to obtain.

We will attend a parade in our home town. Part of our family will walk in that parade.
Others of us will take folks to see it and cheer on those who are involved.

And we will talk a lot of things appropriate.

Have a good Memorial Day, Dear Friends.