I've always thought that saying HAPPY Memorial Day was weird... But, I guess if we consider that, today, Memorial Day means hot dogs and retail sales, it's pretty happy. And THAT is pretty darned SAD.
Yesterday, one of our neighbors wished Mr. AOW "Happy Memorial Day!" when he was out and about on his mobility scooter. Mr. AOW found that greeting creepy.
It's a happy country that produces such men and women as are willing to die for it. Perhaps in that way, we can be both happy and solemn on a day set aside to memorialize such an heroic people who serve and die for a country dedicated to the pursuit of life, liberty, and yes, happiness.
CORRECTIONS: Hey everyone, ok so when I livestreamed this it was immediately after the incident which made it pretty difficult to get everything 100% accurate - especially when I'm not very educated in legal jargon. So just some quick corrections! Tommy had a suspended sentence from a while ago for reporting on grooming gangs. He was essentially being watched to see if he "messed up" again by reporting on these cases. When he got arrested it was because he was livestreaming about another grooming gang case - however my statement about him seemingly being within his rights, just reading things that were already reported - still stands for now. As for the media ban, that existed on the original sentence and is just being enforced again. What this means, is yes you can talk about it as an average every day citizen, but if you were to go to the court room, and try to get more facts it etc. like journalists who were in the court today - you would not be able to publish that without facing legal troubles. So.... that leaves us to a lot of speculation - and it's also why I have to make these corrections because I'm getting all my information second hand and not from the courts etc. Hopefully this helps a bit!
the media ban, that existed on the original sentence and is just being enforced again. What this means, is yes you can talk about it as an average every day citizen, but if you were to go to the court room, and try to get more facts it etc. like journalists who were in the court today - you would not be able to publish that without facing legal troubles.
The media has been "weaponized" in Canada for over 20 years, and if something can been seen or heard over the air in Canada from a US media outlet in a border state, the Canadian authorities have been given the right to prosecute the media outlet and source. There are some cases of a USA Pastor being extradicted to a Canadian province for broadcasting a sermon speaking out against homosexuality and getting convicted and sent to prison for his sermon because his sermon was heard on a US radio station that could be heard across the border. The owner of the US radio station also got prosecuted by the Canadian authorities for broadcasting material deemed illegal for Canadian airwaves. I learned about this several years ago through a memo that a Christian programmer sent to affiliate radio stations after they found out about this one pastor getting extradicted and getting sent to prison for alleged "hate speech" against homosexual groups.
Mystere, The owner of the US radio station also got prosecuted by the Canadian authorities for broadcasting material deemed illegal for Canadian airwaves....
It's always good to remind the younger generation that Memorial Day is not about throwing barbecue parties, but that it's about remembering our loved ones for the sacrifices they made to protect our freedom. It's also to remember how our ancestors came to make their lives better than what they were going through in their birth country across the border or overseas.
“Happy Memorial Day” is something I’ve railed against for years, to no avail. Even the most professed “patriotic” Americans seem more obsessed with leisure and selfishness......than honor and respect.
And, judging from the "professed patriotic Americans" I know, they're far less obsessed with selfishness and far more into honor and respect....thank goodness. Thanks for your service, CI. Are you back home yet?
Z - By “professed” I refer to the shallow mimics, not true Patriots. I hope you’re right, I’ve just seen to many support endlesss war unrelated to killing Terrorists.
I got home in early February, and hope to stay home for the year!
We still called this occasion "Decoration Day" when I was in elementary school. It originated after the Civil War to honor those dead.
Veterans Day was called Armistice Day back then too.
Have we ever given sufficient thanks to those who fought, suffered, bled, died and went broke during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812?
After the decisive victory won by The Allies in World War Two it seems downright criminal to me that even ONE American has had to die in the many staged Exercises in Futility we've been led to indulge in since for the benefit of Munitions Manufacturers and the International Bankers who play all sides against the middle to the world's great detriment.
We should all be armed to the teeth to repel foreign invaders and shoot to death anyone who dares intrude upon the sanctity of our homes.
AGGRESSORS OF ANY KIND DESERVE NOTHING LESS THAN DEATH.
However, when we are duped into becoming aggressors, ourselves, in the name of some phony, trumped-up "cause" or manufactured international "crisis," our soldiers then become nothing more than pawns –– victims of the greed and corrupt ambition of the few who own and operate our leaders and dictate our policies for nefarious purposes of the their own behind the scenes.
Even so, a father, son, husband, brother, lover or friend killed in these Wars of Waste and Warped Ambition is no less deserving of our love, respect and reverence than those who died for genuine, noble causes.
Their sacrifice may have been in vain, but as Kipling said in The Charge of the Light Brigade:
"Theirs not to reason why; Theirs but to do and die."
For that alone they deserve our love, respect and unending support. Courage and sacrifice are still what they are even when tragically –– or diabolically –– misdirected.
May God grant our people –– and ALL people –– access to Truth, and give them the wisdom to seek Truth, then act in accordance with Truth when at last it becomes known.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead; short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high! If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
... We define our history by the definitive wars against European nations with definitive victories. The great cataclysmic world wars convinced us that our conflicts would get bigger and more explosive.
Instead we have returned to civilizational warfare. We no longer fight nations, but tribes. The wars are low intensity, but never go away. The weapons are primitive, but the goal of the attackers is to destroy our morale by inflicting psychological trauma, terrorizing us with barbaric atrocities, to defeat us.
Our military is still adapting its techniques and technology to this old/new way of war. But as a society we must also adapt the way we honor our troops and respect their sacrifices. Memorial Day was born out of the reconciliations between North and South after the Civil War. But we cannot look either to wars won or reconciliations achieved. We must honor the soldiers of a war that may never end....
The heroes –– and the victims –– of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, Westard Expanson, the Civil War, World War One, the Depression, World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, et al. must be spinning in their graves like tops to see what a stinking mess WE have made of our ince0great heritage, despite the great sacrifice and tremendous achievements thea made for OUR sakes.
______ MEMORIAL to a WAY of LIFE NOW SADLY DEFUNCT: ______
Sonce I am partially-sighted, and therefore a bit disabled, a neighbor of my same age, but in better shape, very kindly offered to retrieve my mail and bring it to my frint entrance. The floweriing vine at the mailbox, apparently, grew too fast this spring, and blocked access to the box. She kindly offered to trim the vine for me. Here's what I wrote to her:
Very nice of you to offer, _____, but you shouldn’t have to trim my shrubbery. I thought the “groundskeepers” were doing that. Apparently not. so, If you really want to, please be my guest.
As you know, my activities are very limited. I only do what’s important to me, personally, these days –– and not enough of that, I’m afraid. It’s a shame that merely paying a large sum each month to the “landscapers" is NOT enough to ensure good service. [I have to TELL them to do everything outside of basic mowing, or it doesn’t get done.] "Playing dumb" makes life much easer for them, I’m sure.
Someday, I’ll tell you how beautifully things worked when I was a child and a young man. From what I can see the country has gone to hell in a handcart in the past sixty years.
The garbage collectors walked into our side yard EVERY DAY in all weathers to pull the cans out of the ground where they were neatly buried, emptied the garbage into their truck, then replaced the cans. EVERY DAY.
The mailman delivered the mail TO THE DOOR. –– EVERY DAY.
The laundry was SENT OUT in bags with a checklist, then returned "spandy clean" and neatly folded in BOXES twice a week.
The milkman came and DELIVERED milk, cream, butter and eggs, and took away the empty bottles to be sterilized at the plant and reused.
The grocery store DELIVERED whatever my mother ordered over the phone.
We were NOT “rich,” we were just middle middle-class, and we rented the ground floor of a two-family house when my life began.
The COST of LIVING then was less than ten percent what it is today.
You can HAVE “Progress.” I think it stinks on ice. };^)>
All that may sound like a "fairy tale," to y yiungsters out there, but I assure you it is perfectly true.
So while we are remembering our Fallen Heroes and Victims of Past Wars with gratitude, let us ALSO remember our Fallen Way of Life which suggests to me that the great sacrifices made in the past by our military, Alas! were probably made in VAIN.
Just type the code "REMEMBER" at the Trump store and you may still be able to get the 25% discount on Trump merchandise that he advertised for Memorial Day,
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Great Message AOW
ReplyDeleteI am always surprised at how few Americans understand the meaning of Memorial Day, which my grandmother called "Decoration Day."
DeleteI've always thought that saying HAPPY Memorial Day was weird... But, I guess if we consider that, today, Memorial Day means hot dogs and retail sales, it's pretty happy. And THAT is pretty darned SAD.
DeleteYesterday, one of our neighbors wished Mr. AOW "Happy Memorial Day!" when he was out and about on his mobility scooter. Mr. AOW found that greeting creepy.
DeleteIt's a happy country that produces such men and women as are willing to die for it. Perhaps in that way, we can be both happy and solemn on a day set aside to memorialize such an heroic people who serve and die for a country dedicated to the pursuit of life, liberty, and yes, happiness.
DeleteFJ,
DeleteAMEN to that.
Mr. AOW found that greeting creepy.
DeleteYep. And POTUS started his daily tweeting with "Happy Memorial Day".............
Creepy indeed.
CI,
DeleteNot only the POTUS! The greeting is all over FB and Twitter. Sheesh.
Oh, I know. Some people though, are either supposed to know better, or at least have ‘people’ who do.
DeleteVery moving AOW.. says it all. Thanks you..
ReplyDeleteFREE Tommy Robinson!
ReplyDeleteGood commentary there by the lady in the video:
DeleteCORRECTIONS: Hey everyone, ok so when I livestreamed this it was immediately after the incident which made it pretty difficult to get everything 100% accurate - especially when I'm not very educated in legal jargon. So just some quick corrections! Tommy had a suspended sentence from a while ago for reporting on grooming gangs. He was essentially being watched to see if he "messed up" again by reporting on these cases. When he got arrested it was because he was livestreaming about another grooming gang case - however my statement about him seemingly being within his rights, just reading things that were already reported - still stands for now. As for the media ban, that existed on the original sentence and is just being enforced again. What this means, is yes you can talk about it as an average every day citizen, but if you were to go to the court room, and try to get more facts it etc. like journalists who were in the court today - you would not be able to publish that without facing legal troubles. So.... that leaves us to a lot of speculation - and it's also why I have to make these corrections because I'm getting all my information second hand and not from the courts etc. Hopefully this helps a bit!
Emphasis:
Deletethe media ban, that existed on the original sentence and is just being enforced again. What this means, is yes you can talk about it as an average every day citizen, but if you were to go to the court room, and try to get more facts it etc. like journalists who were in the court today - you would not be able to publish that without facing legal troubles.
There is no free press, 1st Amendment right in Britain. Tommy is a journalist, and for THAT reason, has been arrested. Think about it.
DeleteThanks for clarifying that, AoW!
DeleteJust reporting about Islamic rape in Britain is a CRIME. The rapes can be ignored, but the press or social media reports MUST be punished.
DeleteThe MSM and social media have been "weaponized" in the UK for PC. It can and will happen here.
DeleteJoe,
DeleteIt is already happening to some extent.
Indeed. Special penalties for special victims was only the beginning.
Deleteif this weren't so serious, it would be laughable.
DeleteThersites,
Deleteif this weren't so serious, it would be laughable.
It's beyond weird! Especially in the Information Age.
EVENING STANDARD: Hundreds Protest for Tommy Robinson Outside Downing Street
DeleteOrwellian...
DeleteThe media has been "weaponized" in Canada for over 20 years, and if something can been seen or heard over the air in Canada from a US media outlet in a border state, the Canadian authorities have been given the right to prosecute the media outlet and source. There are some cases of a USA Pastor being extradicted to a Canadian province for broadcasting a sermon speaking out against homosexuality and getting convicted and sent to prison for his sermon because his sermon was heard on a US radio station that could be heard across the border. The owner of the US radio station also got prosecuted by the Canadian authorities for broadcasting material deemed illegal for Canadian airwaves. I learned about this several years ago through a memo that a Christian programmer sent to affiliate radio stations after they found out about this one pastor getting extradicted and getting sent to prison for alleged "hate speech" against homosexual groups.
ReplyDeleteMystere,
DeleteThe owner of the US radio station also got prosecuted by the Canadian authorities for broadcasting material deemed illegal for Canadian airwaves....
And sent to prison?
Wowzer!
It's always good to remind the younger generation that Memorial Day is not about throwing barbecue parties, but that it's about remembering our loved ones for the sacrifices they made to protect our freedom. It's also to remember how our ancestors came to make their lives better than what they were going through in their birth country across the border or overseas.
ReplyDeleteToday, I talked to the 11th grader whom I privately tutor on Saturday mornings. He didn't really know what Memorial Day was all about. **sigh**
DeleteAnd this is an A student in Honors American History, in what is considered the best public high school in Fairfax County, Virginia. Ugh.
“Happy Memorial Day” is something I’ve railed against for years, to no avail. Even the most professed “patriotic” Americans seem more obsessed with leisure and selfishness......than honor and respect.
ReplyDeleteThank you AOW, for posting a reminder.
And, judging from the "professed patriotic Americans" I know, they're far less obsessed with selfishness and far more into honor and respect....thank goodness. Thanks for your service, CI. Are you back home yet?
DeleteZ - By “professed” I refer to the shallow mimics, not true Patriots. I hope you’re right, I’ve just seen to many support endlesss war unrelated to killing Terrorists.
DeleteI got home in early February, and hope to stay home for the year!
We still called this occasion "Decoration Day" when I was in elementary school. It originated after the Civil War to honor those dead.
ReplyDeleteVeterans Day was called Armistice Day back then too.
Have we ever given sufficient thanks to those who fought, suffered, bled, died and went broke during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812?
After the decisive victory won by The Allies in World War Two it seems downright criminal to me that even ONE American has had to die in the many staged Exercises in Futility we've been led to indulge in since for the benefit of Munitions Manufacturers and the International Bankers who play all sides against the middle to the world's great detriment.
We should all be armed to the teeth to repel foreign invaders and shoot to death anyone who dares intrude upon the sanctity of our homes.
AGGRESSORS OF ANY KIND DESERVE NOTHING LESS THAN DEATH.
However, when we are duped into becoming aggressors, ourselves, in the name of some phony, trumped-up "cause" or manufactured international "crisis," our soldiers then become nothing more than pawns –– victims of the greed and corrupt ambition of the few who own and operate our leaders and dictate our policies for nefarious purposes of the their own behind the scenes.
Even so, a father, son, husband, brother, lover or friend killed in these Wars of Waste and Warped Ambition is no less deserving of our love, respect and reverence than those who died for genuine, noble causes.
Their sacrifice may have been in vain, but as Kipling said in The Charge of the Light Brigade:
"Theirs not to reason why;
Theirs but to do and die."
For that alone they deserve our love, respect and unending support. Courage and sacrifice are still what they are even when tragically –– or diabolically –– misdirected.
May God grant our people –– and ALL people –– access to Truth, and give them the wisdom to seek Truth, then act in accordance with Truth when at last it becomes known.
AMEN!
In Flanders Fields
ReplyDeleteJohn McCrae, 1872 - 1918
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead; short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high!
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
From How Can We Honor the Soldiers of an Endless War? What does Memorial Day look like when the war never ends?:
ReplyDelete... We define our history by the definitive wars against European nations with definitive victories. The great cataclysmic world wars convinced us that our conflicts would get bigger and more explosive.
Instead we have returned to civilizational warfare. We no longer fight nations, but tribes. The wars are low intensity, but never go away. The weapons are primitive, but the goal of the attackers is to destroy our morale by inflicting psychological trauma, terrorizing us with barbaric atrocities, to defeat us.
Our military is still adapting its techniques and technology to this old/new way of war. But as a society we must also adapt the way we honor our troops and respect their sacrifices. Memorial Day was born out of the reconciliations between North and South after the Civil War. But we cannot look either to wars won or reconciliations achieved. We must honor the soldiers of a war that may never end....
More at the above link.
The heroes –– and the victims –– of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, Westard Expanson, the Civil War, World War One, the Depression, World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, et al. must be spinning in their graves like tops to see what a stinking mess WE have made of our ince0great heritage, despite the great sacrifice and tremendous achievements thea made for OUR sakes.
ReplyDelete______ MEMORIAL to a WAY of LIFE NOW SADLY DEFUNCT: ______
ReplyDeleteSonce I am partially-sighted, and therefore a bit disabled, a neighbor of my same age, but in better shape, very kindly offered to retrieve my mail and bring it to my frint entrance. The floweriing vine at the mailbox, apparently, grew too fast this spring, and blocked access to the box. She kindly offered to trim the vine for me. Here's what I wrote to her:
Very nice of you to offer, _____, but you shouldn’t have to trim my shrubbery. I thought the “groundskeepers” were doing that. Apparently not. so, If you really want to, please be my guest.
As you know, my activities are very limited. I only do what’s important to me, personally, these days –– and not enough of that, I’m afraid. It’s a shame that merely paying a large sum each month to the “landscapers" is NOT enough to ensure good service. [I have to TELL them to do everything outside of basic mowing, or it doesn’t get done.] "Playing dumb" makes life much easer for them, I’m sure.
Someday, I’ll tell you how beautifully things worked when I was a child and a young man. From what I can see the country has gone to hell in a handcart in the past sixty years.
The garbage collectors walked into our side yard EVERY DAY in all weathers to pull the cans out of the ground where they were neatly buried, emptied the garbage into their truck, then replaced the cans. EVERY DAY.
The mailman delivered the mail TO THE DOOR. –– EVERY DAY.
The laundry was SENT OUT in bags with a checklist, then returned "spandy clean" and neatly folded in BOXES twice a week.
The milkman came and DELIVERED milk, cream, butter and eggs, and took away the empty bottles to be sterilized at the plant and reused.
The grocery store DELIVERED whatever my mother ordered over the phone.
We were NOT “rich,” we were just middle middle-class, and we rented the ground floor of a two-family house when my life began.
The COST of LIVING then was less than ten percent what it is today.
You can HAVE “Progress.” I think it stinks on ice. };^)>
All that may sound like a "fairy tale," to y yiungsters out there, but I assure you it is perfectly true.
So while we are remembering our Fallen Heroes and Victims of Past Wars with gratitude, let us ALSO remember our Fallen Way of Life which suggests to me that the great sacrifices made in the past by our military, Alas! were probably made in VAIN.
Just type the code "REMEMBER" at the Trump store and you may still be able to get the 25% discount on Trump merchandise that he advertised for Memorial Day,
ReplyDeleteNow that's a true American.
Put a sock in it Duck!
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DeleteI told you to put a sock in it. You aught to know by now I mean what I say.
DeleteStay on topic or be on your way.
DeleteThank you, Warren. I was away from the blog most of yesterday. Another one of those crazy days here! I had little time to look in on the blog.
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