Take a minute from your time with family and friends at the BBQ to remember those who gave everything for this country.
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Take a minute from your time with family and friends at the BBQ to remember those who gave everything for this country.
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Punchy
Ah…yes. Paul Wolfowitz. A true solider.
The Other Steve
We shall pay tribute to Charles Nelson Reilly, who died this weekend. :-(
I’ll always remember watching Hollywood Squares as a kid.
p.lukasiak
just sent this letter to the Times…
Undeniable Liberal
Sorry to blogwhore, but I put alot of thought and tears into posting A Tribute to My Big Brother at my place for Memorial Day. An anti-war perspective from somebody who has been through the loss of a loved one for lies.
He was killed in Vietnam, and the same bullshit is happening to families again.
Come and visit and tell me what you think, please.
Dug Jay
This suggestion appears to have been honored in a rather strange fashion thus far, with none stranger or more downright bizarre than that of p. lukasiak who incredibly argues that The New York Times is somehow demonstrating bias against those protesting the Iraq war. I guess Andrew Sullivan is not the only fool who has been or needs to be institutionalized for dementia.
mrmobi
So, Dug Jay, you’re saying that the only way to honor the memory of those who gave the last full measure of devotion is to support policies based on lies which lead to wasted and ruined lives and fiscal ruin for our country.
Brilliant! You are a smart ghoul, Dug.
ChristieS
In memorium.
ChristieS
In memorium.
Dover remembers
Dug Jay
mrmobi another moron heard from…one who obviously can’t even read the English language.
demimondian
Any moron can cheer for the troops. It takes a particularly egregious brand of moron to use them as human shields for his legacy. On this Memorial Day, remember those who gave their lives for this President’s dream of the purple, and pray for those who will be killed or maimed in his pursuit of revenge on the nation which refused to elevate him.
Zombie Santa Claus
He might’ve killed 4,000+ Americans and permanently maimed 20,000+ others, hopelessly scarring the lives of hundreds of thousands more and souring the political debate in this country to an extent unseen since Vietnam. But do spare a thought for him. After all, his wife says that “no one in this country” suffers more from this war than the two of them.
searp
It is time to forget the politics and remember and honor the sacrifices that all our soldiers have made and will make for us. They make those sacrifices for all of us.
Keith
As much as I’d like to step back and just think about the positives of what Memorial Day means, I’m watching Discovery Channel and getting drunk like I should because I decided to start the day watching Fox News only to see some retired general (McInerny, I think) pulling the same, tired (and today, inappropriate, SHIT) of calling Democrats “cut and runners”…literally. No day is sacred any more, so fuck this holiday. Sorry, but this country is now about ideology and enemies. Not right/wrong. Not honor and respect. It’s about using any and every opportunity to smear “The Enemy”, whether that’s someone killing innocent people or someone you disagree with.
Wilfred
This from Jonathan Freedland in the current NYBooks (www.nybooks.com)
I’m a veteran, and I knew people who ended up killed in wars. There’s comes a point where you have to stifle the emotionalism and sentimentality and flatly state that the Americans who have died in Iraq did not ‘give all’ for America but instead were wasted in pursuit of Bush’s perverted dream of Empire.
They’re victims, not heroes. And the best memorial we can give them is the complete demolition of the political party that destroyed their lives and those of their families. That’s my fucking pledge.
canuckistani
It isn’t Memorial Day up here, just a regular working day, but I’ll raise a beer later to those victims of lies whose lives were wasted in making the world a worse place.
BIRDZILLA
Remember the real heros of america not the politicians sbribbling their names on rediclous treaties and selling out this nation
RSA
I support the troops. That is all.
ThymeZone
This is a great country. The country that produced Birdzilla.
Dulcie
BIRDZILLA – this is high art, and has to be one of the best things you’ve ever written. I am not worthy!
Zombie Santa Claus
Not to mention the first two seasons of The Wire.
(Shit. Now BIRDZILLA and HBO shows are inextricably intertwined in my head. Maybe I need therapy to resolve this problem, but I think I’ll hold off until it really gets out of hand.)
Zifnab
Well, Cindy Sheehan is throwing in the towel.
I don’t know if this is bad or good, but it certainly marks the end of an era.
empty
And this from Andrew Bacevich
Andrew
The wire is getting better halfway through season one, but it’s still just like a really boring episode of the shield.