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Nothing irks me more than Vets who guilt trip others on memorial day. Get off your high horse and let people enjoy themselves. I've been seeing it all weekend on Facebook.
Nothing irks me more than Vets who guilt trip others on memorial day. Get off your high horse and let people enjoy themselves. I've been seeing it all weekend on Facebook.
If I recall correctly, you're the one that attempted to question my service, when you have never spent a day in uniform.
You also posted about how annoyed you are with the way memorial day is treated. I responded that I'm sick of Vets riding their high horse. Let people enjoy the holiday as they see fit. I participated in OEF. It's no one's business how I spend my holiday. I couldn't care less if my neighbor wants to BBQ and have people over. Yesterday I went to Home Depot and bought some tools that were on sale. The horrors...
Last edited by Poncho_NM; 05-26-2014 at 08:46 AM..
If I recall correctly, you're the one that attempted to question my service, when you have never spent a day in uniform.
You also posted about how annoyed you are with the way memorial day is treated. I responded that I'm sick of Vets riding their high horse. Let people enjoy the holiday as they see fit. I participated in OEF. It's no one's business how I spend my holiday. I couldn't care less if my neighbor wants to BBQ and have people over. Yesterday I went to Home Depot and bought some tools that were on sale. The horrors...
Again, you are not answering my question on what you did in the service. Hmmmm....
It does bother me a bit. Not the shopping as much, businesses are trying to make a profit, nothing will stop that.
But the focus on BBQs, parties, drinking, etc. That does kind of rub me.
When I was stationed in Italy, they do a Memorial Day [though I do not recall the date]. It is strong in their culture that EVERYONE visits the graves of relatives, flowers are put on all war memorials, etc. Nearly the entire nation wears black that day every year.
I was impressed that even the US / Allied Forces cemeteries in Italy [for that matter all of them through-out Europe] are very well cared for. With local military parades, guard units, fire Departments, etc, in their finest uniforms.
But here stateside it is taken much more as a happy party atmosphere.
Italy, of course, was totally involved in WWII. So was the US, and most of the people who were here then respect Memorial Day.
Since the Vietnam war, however, the US military has mostly been a legionary force and its wars have barely brushed the lives of the rest of America.
If I recall correctly, you're the one that attempted to question my service, when you have never spent a day in uniform.
You also posted about how annoyed you are with the way memorial day is treated. I responded that I'm sick of Vets riding their high horse. Let people enjoy the holiday as they see fit. I participated in OEF. It's no one's business how I spend my holiday. I couldn't care less if my neighbor wants to BBQ and have people over. Yesterday I went to Home Depot and bought some tools that were on sale. The horrors...
Absolutely. Let people enjoy this holiday and others like it. I will be having friends over and grilling an enjoying my holiday just like anyone. But it is not asking too much that people remember what it is that has enabled our way of life in this great country. As we drift deeper and deeper into the entitlement-minded culture we're becoming, days like Memorial Day are even more important than ever because they remind people that others have sacrificed in order for this country to continue. Maybe it'll give us pause in our campaigns of "me-first."
You log on yahoo! today, the first thing you see is celebrity wedding news. Who cares really? Entertainment industry insist on shoving things down our throat. Isn't today Memorial day?
People (civilians or veterans) are going to do what they are going to do regardless how we feel. It is just life.
However, different people deal with grief in different ways, especially women, especially civilians. Grief is a highly individual journey. Some people choose to never talk about the people they have lost, some people choose to keep their memories alive, no matter how they choose to grieve, there is no right or wrong ways because closure itself is such a strange word when referring to a life. A little bit venting is certainly healthy to deal with frustration and or grief.
Do people (civilians and Veterans) know It has become a Memorial Day tradition on the part of the 3rd Infantry Division, (The Old Guard) to place flags on every grave at Arlington National Cemetery?
Do civilians know that “Battlefield Cross” is to be a reminder, to all who see it, that the one who once filled these boots and held this rifle, in his last act on earth, faced DEATH in order to protect our freedom?
It is never too late to teach the true meaning and history of Memorial day.
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