Posted on 05/28/2007 7:16:44 AM PDT by rellimpank
Memorial Day, 2007 The first weekend of summer, time for picnics and barbecues and trips to the beach.
To their credit, Americans never really forgot the sacrifices of those who gave the final measure to protect the freedoms we now hold so casually.
But their sacrifices were safely pigeonholed in a brief ceremony at the cemetery, a few moments of young kids scrambling to pass out flags in the sun -- Memorial Day.
Not so distressing, that way. The corpses of the frozen dead at Choisin Reservoir, the massacred at Malmedy? Another world. Heroes distantly remembered, symbols conveniently abstract, words of some historic speech memorized and doggedly recited by the best student in the class
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But to that a-s Edwards its a bumper sticker
For me Franklin’s query to the future: “A Republic if you can keep it” still rings as a challange to all of us.
Before we are back on track I’d like to see the Kennedy assassination cleaned up. Something godawful happened that day in Dallas, and as the years go by it still haunts many. I’m no JFK I fan, he was addicted to speed, and never saw a women under thirty he didn’t want to bed. But nobody deserves what happened to him.
Maybe he did steal the office, but he stole it fair and square under American unwritten political rules, and didn’t deserve to be murdered.
--I don't think stealing it with Daddy Joe's bootlegging proceeds was exactly what Ben Franklin had in mind---
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