A Time To Remember
May. 30th, 2005 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomI have actually seen and heard the phrase "Happy Memorial Day".
What have we become as a people, that for many today is a day off from work, a day to barbecue, a day to buy things on sale, and nothing more?
For those who have forgotten: This is what today is about.
And this.
And this.
And this.
And, though our government really doesn't want you to think about them, this, this, this, this, and this. (Not for the squeamish... but some people really need to take a good, long look.)
(Crossposted to Mandate, My Ass.)
What have we become as a people, that for many today is a day off from work, a day to barbecue, a day to buy things on sale, and nothing more?
For those who have forgotten: This is what today is about.
And this.
And this.
And this.
And, though our government really doesn't want you to think about them, this, this, this, this, and this. (Not for the squeamish... but some people really need to take a good, long look.)
(Crossposted to Mandate, My Ass.)
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Date: 2005-05-30 01:29 pm (UTC)The problem, my friend, is that those who would take us into wars (their own or their political friends and allies'), and turn a blind eye to dodgy evidence if it justifies their ends, are the sort that thinks of "colateral damage" purely as numbers on a spreadsheet. Likewise casualties. And yet they keep getting returned to office.
One thinks of the casualty listings of the Great War, black bordered newspaper pages full of the latest "Glorious Dead". That points it out rather well....