Memorial Day
The Editorial Cartoon in the Tacoma News Tribune today was a fairly simple affair - Black, with a mother and child at a gravesite. The child clutching a flag, the mother with a tri-fold burial flag in her arm.
The caption was “A prayer for the day when we don’t have new names to mourn…”
All in all, a wonderful piece, highlighting the sacrifice of not only our servicemen, but their families.
But also thought provoking.
Because, in the final analysis, the only nation that has no new names to mourn, is a nation that has passed from history.
And the people of that nation would be dead, or enslaved, and have many, many more names to mourn.
So while our memory of the fallen should be respectful, and we should remain aware and cognizant of their sacrifice (and that of their families), we should also honor them for their deeds, and rejoice that our nation can produce men and women who are willing to stand on the wall for the rest of us, and throw themselves in harms way, to protect our people, and our way of life.
On May 28, 2007 at 2:42 pm, Playin' Possum wrote:
"Because, in the final analysis, the only nation that has no new names to mourn, is a nation that has passed from history."
So you are incapable of reaching a reasoned - analytically sound, that is - scenario wherein man evolves past the murderous monkey within???
Or are you simply unwilling?
On May 28, 2007 at 5:48 pm, Aurelius wrote:
In the fullness of time, should we manage to avoid racial suicide, we may be able to get beyond the need for war. Of course, by that time, the time of Nations too, will be past.
For the forseeable future - surely several hundred more years, perhaps several thousand - there will always be people who want what others have, or prefer to have others work for their benefit, or want to force their will on others (because they KNOW BETTER), or what have you.
In fact, as the population pressure increases, and resources decrease (most importantly, fresh clean water), conflict will escalate.
Hard to beat millions of years of evolution by sheer will power. And there will always be those who simply don’t want too.
On May 29, 2007 at 12:18 am, LSU wrote:
I think Aurelius is right, The battle for freedom is one of constant vigilence, and struggle. The alternative is slavery.
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