Memorial Day | Memorial Day
Apr.17.2013
On the eve of Israel Independence Day we were a group of 15 friends at our house sitting around talking, eating and laughing; it wasn’t an ordinary party and I would like to explain.
Like the American 4th of July, Independence Day in Israel is a great day of celebration and ...
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May.28.2012
This Memorial Day strikes me as less of a holiday. Perhaps our nation is experiencing a creeping change of celebration. This one, at least in my area, is far more low key than others. Or maybe the deer are influencing my thinking.
To be sure, I'm in isolation of sorts, continuing my routines, juice...
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May.28.2012
During the Memorial Day Weekend I started wondering about all the men and women who had lost their lives in the eleven wars Americans have fought in. Each person who lost his, or her life was a unique individual. A person God created with a face, personality and soul like none other. Each fallen...
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May.28.2012
During the Memorial Day Weekend I started wondering about all the men and women who had lost their lives in the eleven wars Americans have fought in. Each person who lost his, or her life was a unique individual. A person God created with a face, personality and soul like none other. Each fallen...
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May.28.2012
Memorial Day. Today is the day everyone puts a flag on their porch and remembers those they have lost, whether it be from natural causes, murder, or war, it is a day to honor and remember. Many will visit a cemetery to place a flag or flowers, I am not one of those. I know for a fact...
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May.27.2012
Up late in the morning. Worked until Son Jason paid us a visit around two o'clock.
Jason, Guy, and I had a nice talk which stretched on through the afternoon, as Jason kept going up to the little store, hoping to find a regular on duty, this Memorial Day. At last, he...
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May.27.2012
In Flanders Fields By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army
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...
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May.27.2012
May 27
MEMORIAL DAY
Veteran of the addiction wars, I have scars but few medals. I don’t need a purple heart, mine is black and blue. I don’t keep trophies either, no empty bottles or old syringes. Hostages, I have released them, too. I found often...
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May.26.2012
What does Memorial Day mean to you? I feel fortunate to have clear memories of what Memorial Day signifies. When I was a kid growing up in North Dakota, this was a day where everyone I knew actually did commemorate the fallen American soldiers, who had died for our country as far back as the...
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May.25.2012
I once asked my father, a decorated veteran of WWII, what he thought of the war films he'd seen. He was quick to say that didn't care for most of them, that they seemed either too fake, or too romantic.
The titles below do not romanticize war. ...
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