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Memorial Day

 

 
It makes me uncomfortable to hear or see people expressing "Happy Memorial Day!"  When did it become a day of celebrating instead of honoring?


We are living in a time and in a country where it is less and less safe to do ordinary things like shop in a grocery store or go to school. Frankly, I think the situation makes a mockery of those who sacrificed for our freedoms. 

Do we really want to live in a society that even contemplates solutions like dropping off our children to spend their days in prison-like conditions, passing armed guards at the door of the elementary school?

And pointing to perpetrators as evil and deranged is a convenient way to absolve oneself of any complicity in a allowing the human condition to have devolved to this sorry point.

I am heartbroken, sad and damn angry.


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  1. SandraMay 28, 2022 at 12:25 PM

    Thank you for expressing so well what I feel.

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  2. gigi-hawaiiMay 28, 2022 at 2:11 PM

    I am heartbroken and angry, too. When I was a kid, we didn't have these problems.

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  3. Linda ReederMay 28, 2022 at 2:15 PM

    'And pointing to perpetrators as evil and deranged is a convenient way to absolve oneself of any complicity in a allowing the human condition to have devolved to this sorry point." YES!
    Thank you for saying this. I knew I felt it but had not seen it expressed before.

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  4. Arkansas PattiMay 28, 2022 at 4:44 PM

    Me too--- all three.

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  5. Miss MerryMay 28, 2022 at 7:09 PM

    I can't look at the faces and I am ignoring the families. I want to stay angry. I am furious this happened again. And again. They hadn't held the Buffalo funerals yet. No excuses. This must end! Playing games with guns that can shred children is not a hobby. No civilians need these guns. I am so angry.

    I am also appalled at "Memorial Day Sales" and "Celebrations". We are honoring war dead. It is not a celebration, it is a solemn occasion. And to peddle merchandise in their name is atrocious.

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  6. KayMay 28, 2022 at 8:58 PM

    I've been gone these past weeks to Europe and came home to this horrible tragedy. Again. It keeps happening again and again and all we get are thoughts and prayers. I'm sick of it and sick of politicians paid off by the NRA.

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  7. Linda MyersMay 28, 2022 at 9:22 PM

    Could we vote them all out of office?

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  8. JoaredMay 28, 2022 at 9:31 PM

    So very true!

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  9. Margaret (Peggy or Peg too)May 28, 2022 at 11:43 PM

    Amen.

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  10. Granny AnnieMay 30, 2022 at 9:53 AM

    Let me quote you..."I am heartbroken, sad and damn angry."

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  11. MaebemeMay 30, 2022 at 10:21 AM

    Well said Olga.

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  12. TaborMay 31, 2022 at 10:43 AM

    I think more and more Americans are angry at how we have allowed a small group to become rich and powerful with total lack of empathy for everyone else.

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