Today We Remember

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

The above is just a funny. And a way to say “Sorry I was so late getting my behind out of bed.” On the good side, I AM feeling better, so there’s that. And it amused me to put Marco Rubio in charge of you lot, virtually.
Like the poor man hasn’t suffered enough.

Speaking of suffering, of course today is not veterans day, but memorial day. This means we are remembering all those who gave their lives in service of this nation.

Was the nation sometimes in error? Well, have you seen some of the people we elect? Or, at least who occupy the oval office? However, there is virtue in those who died, doing their best for what seemed like the life of the nation.

And while on that, I am not anti-war. I am against recklessly wasting the nation’s sons (and some daughters.) However what is reckless and what is necessary doesn’t often become clear until after the fact. Sometimes a long time after the fact.

Everyone who lives, not just presidents, are prisoners of their own time and their own prejudices. This means sometimes something will look absolutely necessary to fight against, or a certain type of evil might be tolerated that costs many more lives (communism) because everyone believes the alternative (nuclear war) is worse. I have a strong suspicion Russia is and always was a paper tiger even when it was the Soviet Union. I believe that long-marchers in our own institutions made it appear otherwise, to keep the USSR alive. (And that was a boon for the state so many ways.) I also believe those who served and fought during the cold war were still admirable, and those who died should be honored. (I’m not even blaming presidents during that time. Okay, maybe FDR, but I blame him for so many things, that’s just one more. After all, they might get briefed at a certain level, but as the covidiocy taught us, they are also often WRONGLY briefed to manipulate them. So, I hold them harmless and will assume they were trying to protect Americans.)

I do disapprove of what I’ll call altruistic wars. (Somalia, really? Why?) The US is not a charity organization, and spending our sons’ lives in service of goals that have little to nothing to do with us is wanton and evil. Yes, I do realize a lot of (idiot) presidents thought they were winning hearts and minds. It was the same sort of grift that gave us USAid. Do I hold presidents harmless in such boondoggles? Well, no. Yes, a lot of them were brain damaged by Marxism. That’s no excuse. They’re functional adults and should know better.

Still I honor the men who died in such forays. Because theirs was not to know all the circumstances. Their oath was to serve and so they did to the last full measure. For that they deserve our honor and gratitude.

If you’re the praying kind, say a prayer for those who died in the service of the nation. If not take a minute and think of them, anyway. They deserve that much honor.

And let’s all of us keep a close eye on those who have the ability to order our young to war and raise a clamor when they abuse it.

America’s sons are made of too fine a stuff to waste in ridiculous and ill thought out charitable expeditions. But let’s hope also they’ll always be willing to serve. Because a nation whose young won’t defend her with their lives if needed is already dead. She just hasn’t fallen over.


20 thoughts on “Today We Remember”

  2. I believe it is also appropriate to honor those who, like my late father, served and have since passed away. This is the sixth Memorial Day since his passing.

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  4. As for the nation and causes, I remember one thing my best friend said to me. When it comes down to it, it’s not about causes or glory or anything else but the guys next to you under fire.

    And that’s the way it should be.

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  5. Our leaders also should not hesitate to send our brave soldiers to war when it is necessary. When ignoring a threat to our nation will only allow it to fester and get worse. When the cost of dealing with it today is trivial compared to the cost of kicking that can down the road yet again.

    President Trump is fighting a war we must win before the cost becomes intolerable. A war that will not end until the militant theocratic tyranny oppressing Iran is utterly destroyed. He’s fighting smart and he’s fighting careful. He is being the President we need, after 47 years spent wishing for the problem to just go away on its own.

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    2. The Memorial Day service we attended had a VFW member speak of the uncle she never knew, who died in 1983 with 240 others, and I knew which event she spoke of. I’m pretty sure most people didn’t.

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  6. Two verses from the poem “For the Fallen” work well for me on the day we honor those who gave their last full measure, the former verse the most commonly read, and the latter, the poems last verse, speaking to me as well:

    They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun and in the morning
    We will remember them.

    …

    As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
    Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
    As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
    To the end, to the end, they remain.

    As I enjoy the fruits they sacrificed for today, I will try and spare them all a thought or three.

    Have a Happy Memorial Day, Huns and Hoydens, and Feds too.

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  8. Memorial Day is not a holiday to be preceded by a Happy.

    It’s to honor those who died while in uniformed service. Some died in battle. Some died of disease, training accidents, and some died a period of time after their wounds.

    Congress bastardized it by making it a three day weekend.

    Make me King and that’s one of many first things I would correct.

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    2. Okay, I get where you are coming from, and I agree honoring the fallen can be missing in all this in recent years, but I would also like to think they’d agree that they gave all so the folks back home could be happy and free.

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  9. My Grandfather and 3 of 4 great uncles came back from WWII. My Grandfather’s younger brother Kenny did not.

    We honor them all.

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  10. Sometimes war is the best alternative. It should never, ever be taken lightly, by leaders or by those of us who teach the youngsters about the past and about why sacrifices were needful.

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  12. Marco Rubio is the A-10 of the Trump administration. He will be happy to watch the huns!

    Glad you are feeling better, Sarah.

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  13. Now I’m hearing a lot of stupid talk about ‘destroying’ the enriched uranium in Iran.

    URANIUM CAN’T BE DESTROYED!!

    It’s a f*king element! It’s metal! Might as well talk about ‘destroying’ iron ore.

    We have to confiscate the uranium. All of it. Including what’s in the cores of their ‘civilian’ nuclear reactors that they also use to breed plutonium. Either that, or render it completely inaccessible.

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    1. Someone thinks we don’t have significant amounts of antimatter available for strategic delivery.

      Someone may be correct.

      How boring.

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