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Mickey Richaud

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Had this and other similar cartoons sent to me this morning. Kinda telling, don't ya think?

Be safe this weekend.
 

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Out comes my POW-MIA flag at dawn t'morrow. Hangs in front of the garage 'til Monday sundown.

Stray thoughts of Tony are runnin' thru me pea brane, too.
 
It seems many have forgotten what Memorial Day means, for them it's just a 3 day weekend. That's their loss, all I can say is that I'll never forget and I thank everyone that has ever been in the military.
I'm with you Doc, Tony is never far from my thoughts.
Roy :cheers:
 
Whew! For a second there I was afraid you were posting whatI sent you this morning! Thanks for not! Several friends and family at Arlington and other military cemetaries, which makes the traditional ceremony at The Tomb of The Unknowns all the more special.
 
Gray_Cat said:
It seems many have forgotten what Memorial Day means, for them it's just a 3 day weekend.
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Memorial Day and July 4th should both mean much more than they do. Such is life.
 
Gray_Cat said:
It seems many have forgotten what Memorial Day means, for them it's just a 3 day weekend. That's their loss, all I can say is that I'll never forget and I thank everyone that has ever been in the military.
I'm with you Doc, Tony is never far from my thoughts.
Roy :cheers:
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One problem is that Memorial Day's meaning has kinda been obscured and confused with Veterans' Day. Not to take anything away from Tony, or any other vet, but Memorial Day's original intent was to remember those who died while in the military service.

Some good thoughts here:

https://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html
 
Hey bro... this flag gets hung on every American "Remembrance" day. :wink:

...and that e-mail about brought up th' first pot of coffee. I know who to blame, too.
 
DrEntropy said:
...and that e-mail about brought up th' first pot of coffee. I know who to blame, too.
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Yeah, for some reason, I can't get Bob Lind's song "Elusive Butterfly" outta me noggin!
 
Mickey Richaud said:
Gray_Cat said:
It seems many have forgotten what Memorial Day means, for them it's just a 3 day weekend. That's their loss, all I can say is that I'll never forget and I thank everyone that has ever been in the military.
I'm with you Doc, Tony is never far from my thoughts.
Roy :cheers:
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One problem is that Memorial Day's meaning has kinda been obscured and confused with Veterans' Day. Not to take anything away from Tony, or any other vet, but Memorial Day's original intent was to remember those who died while in the military service.

Some good thoughts here:

https://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html
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Here's another holiday where the initial meaning has also been obscured. Interesting to me that it has ties to the two previously mentioned days of rememberence.

<span style="font-style: italic">The first North American Mother’s Day was conceptualized with Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation in 1870. Despite having penned The Battle Hymn of the Republic 12 years earlier, Howe had become so distraught by the death and carnage of the Civil War that she called on Mother’s to come together and protest what she saw as the futility of their Sons killing the Sons of other Mothers. With the following, she called for an international Mother's Day celebrating peace and motherhood:

Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts,
Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears
Say firmly:

"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of
charity, mercy and patience.

"We women of one country
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says, "Disarm, Disarm!"
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice!
Blood does not wipe out dishonor
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have of ten forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war.

Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God.

In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality
May be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions.
The great and general interests of peace. </span>
 
Mickey,

I have that cartoon on my file cabinet.
Also,look up "A Pittance of Time" on Youtube.
I know it's about Veteran's Day,but I
think it fits Memerial Day also.

- Doug
 
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