This Is The Sound An Asshole Makes

A lying, asshole, to be specific.

Pillow Talk from BriTANicK

I have this funny thing I like to do after sex…

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Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a day that usually instills patriotism and pride in country and fellow Americans with flag waving, parades, salutes and a whole barrage of special services and Memorials. I have experienced all of those feelings and can remember tremendous pride and love for America and its seeming care for the rest of the world’s lesser fortunate citizens. I remember going to the parades in my youth, then marching in many later. I would beam with pride and honor.

But as I began to mature, I began to see mindlessness in the flag waving because most people weren’t even sure what the day was even for. Even I could easily forget that the day was for remembering and memorializing the fallen of wars. It was originally a day called “Decoration Day” because people would go to cemeteries and decorate the graves of fallen soldiers and service members with flags and flowers in “memorial” of those folks.

The day (like Christmas) is now commercialized to a point that it basically represents (in years past) the weekend that kicks off summer and vacation season. People pile into cars and go to some destination that usually has little or nothing to do with decorating or remembering anything except for spending money. Amusement Parks normally get a big hit on this weekend. Down south it is basically warm enough to hit the beach and remember dolphin and crabs and decorate shells. I have personally “remembered” a few golf balls on this day (once playing with a friend who had a bag towel that was the stars and stripes… we were very patriotic).

Of course, there are those who still do the “Memorial Day” military extravaganzas, just as my dad (The Old Soldier) is very involved with every year down around Birmingham. But I know and understand where he is coming from and I know him. I know what an illegal war did to him and the tragedy that war caused for me, my sister and my Mom. I know that he flatly agrees with this neocon agenda and it is those people who are the most unpatriotic that can be… for I can never understand how sending people to die for bullshit reasons is “patriotic”.

We had our “Decoration Day” last week down close to the river (my wife’s family’s old home site/church). Every year (this is common in the SE US), we honor everyone (not just vets) who have died and get together and eat, tell stories, have a blast. Today, I am not driving anywhere. I am not raising a flag half mast. I will not salute. I will not view a parade, even if the damn thing passes in front of my home. I am going to remember those that have fallen. Period.

I am going to think about the ones falling right now in these wars that should have never been, understanding that these new deaths, brought on by careless greed for money and power, are honored only in heart and mind and not through any mindless actions that have been brainwashed into society. Doing what the monsters want us to do is not patriotic, people. Enamored by their shiny little objects that grab our attention (like an illusionist tricking his audience) doesn’t mean we care about America and its fallen. That, in my opinion, is truly from within, no matter where you are standing at the moment.

You will see politicians out today smothering us with flag pinned dreams of hope and change, but they have little intent of real change. Its all part of the hypnotizing show. People are coming out in droves to mingle and “touch” these people, like they are spiritual miracle doers… all-the-while thousands are losing their health care, becoming sick and dying. People losing their homes in record numbers. $12-15/gallon of gas looming, but no one talking about it, yet record profits for the Bush cronies and oil friends. Apocalyptic beliefs prevailing (both us and “them”) or imagined “enemies” (radical Islamics and the like) to scare the hell out of us rednecks. Spending ungodly amounts of our illegally taken “Income Taxes” to pay the interest on the money they are borrowing from China for these oil wars, while raping and pillaging the environment and resources.

Most importantly, this fake war for Democracy is killing our friends and family when they have no real business over there. None. All lies. All devious from the get-go. I want to remember them, even though their leaders are monsters and sacrificed them for their ill gotten gains and evil intent. So, I will not memorialize the “holiday”.

But I will walk across the street to speak to my neighbor who’s husband died in Nam and tell her how much I care about her and remember her husband. I WILL reach out to several folks via phone who have lost loved ones in a war and share my thoughts with them. I will read and consider stories offered by others and “remember” their heroes with them.

Memorial Day 08′

Monday May 26th, 2008 - Memorial Day.

Let’s all remember the fallen soldiers who have given themselves to this country. It is a sacrifice no one should have to make but those who have, we are humbled to try and understand their courage.
Memorial Day tribute < video Link

 

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American Revolution: 1775 - 1783
4,435 American battlefield deaths

War of 1812: 1812 - 1815
2,260 American battlefield deaths

Mexican War: 1846 - 1848
1,733 American battlefield deaths

A visit to Washington DC should be a must for all Americans–
The National World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C., established by the American Battle Monuments Commission, honors all military veterans of World War II, the citizens on the home front, the nation at large, and the high moral purpose and idealism that motivated the nation’s call to arms.

Civil War: 1861 - 1865
Union Forces deaths - 140,414……….Confederate Forces deaths - 74,524

Spanish American War: April 25 - August 12 1898
385 American battlefield deaths

WWI: 1914 - 1918
53,402 American battlefield deaths

WWII: 1939 - 1945
291,557 American battlefield deaths

The “Three Servicemen” statue depicts a realistic image of Vietnam servicemen. It is a symbol of their courage and devotion to their country. The three men represent various ethnic backgrounds. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is comprised of three components: the Wall of Names, the Three Servicemen Statue and Flagpole, and the Vietnam Women’s Memorial.

Korean War: 1950 - 1953
33,741 American battlefield deaths

Vietnam: 1954 - 1975
47,244 American battlefield deaths

Persian Gulf War: August 1990 - April 1991
147 American Battlefield deaths

Afghanistan: 2001 -
450 [and counting] American battlefield deaths - Approx. as of May 2008

Iraq: 2003 -
4000 [and counting] American battlefield deaths - Approx. as of May 2008

A field of 4,000 sculpted gold stars on the Freedom Wall commemorates the more than 400,000 Americans who gave their lives, and symbolized the sacrifice of families across the nation.

As I approach the gates of heaven;
St. Peter I will tell;
One more soldier reporting sir;
I’ve served my time in hell.

-Mark Anthony Gresswell

“They shall not grow old
as we are left to grow old.
Age shall not wither
nor the years condemn.
But at the rising of the sun
and the going down -
we shall remember them.”

- Lawrence Binyon