Memorial Day (USA) a day to remember and honor

[kipper]

 

[redrum]

There's a memorial  park right across the street from me. Yesterday they had a service and I was talking with a friend in my place when we heard CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! 

Kind of startled us and we saw they had fired a 21 gun salute. 

Taps for Maggio. 

[Strider]

http://www.animalsinwar.org.uk/index.cfm?asset_id=1422

[Strider]

[Walter]

For those who gave all...we honor and thank you. 🇺🇸
 

 

Edited June 1, 2021 by Walter

[dodgone]

Sorry, this not for disrespecting this important day  but i would like to make a point....

Army Introduces New Gender Reveal Grenades For Trans Soldiers

May 26th, 2021 - BabylonBee.com

 

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Pentagon revealed today an exciting new standard-issue piece of equipment for all soldiers in the United States Army: a gender reveal grenade. Instead of exploding in a deadly blast of shrapnel to neutralize America's foes, the grenade will simply detonate in a harmless puff of smoke to indicate the soldier's chosen gender identity.

"Our foes will cower in fear as our brave soldiers pop off a grenade that announces their gender identity," said a spokesperson for the Army. "Imagine the look on Chinese soldiers' faces as they hide in their bunkers and a grenade comes screaming in, only to pop open and bravely declare, 'It's a girl!'"

The Army has already performed field tests in the Middle East. As U.S. soldiers stormed an ISIS stronghold, one trans soldier screamed, "Grenade!" and threw her grenade, which exploded in a cloud of pink. The other soldiers applauded their sister in arms for her bravery. The soldiers were, of course, slaughtered by ISIS, who just shrugged and laughed when they saw the pink smoke. But what's important, according to the after-action report, is that everyone felt included.

According to the spokesperson, the old frag grenades will be slowly phased out, as they are harmful and triggering to the opposing side in a war. "We look forward to a utopian future where war is just two sides taking turns throwing gender reveal grenades at one another. Surely, that day is coming soon."

America's foes and geopolitical threats all said they are 100% in favor of the change

 

This a comparision among the American, Russian and chinese recruitment videos (in spanish), just pick your warriors

https://www.dodgone.com/blog/bienvenidos-a-la-woke-us-army

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Strider]

[BobDobbs]

On 5/31/2021 at 6:15 PM, dodgone said:

Sorry, this not for disrespecting this important day  but i would like to make a point....

Army Introduces New Gender Reveal Grenades For Trans Soldiers

May 26th, 2021 - BabylonBee.com

 

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Pentagon revealed today an exciting new standard-issue piece of equipment for all soldiers in the United States Army: a gender reveal grenade. Instead of exploding in a deadly blast of shrapnel to neutralize America's foes, the grenade will simply detonate in a harmless puff of smoke to indicate the soldier's chosen gender identity.

"Our foes will cower in fear as our brave soldiers pop off a grenade that announces their gender identity," said a spokesperson for the Army. "Imagine the look on Chinese soldiers' faces as they hide in their bunkers and a grenade comes screaming in, only to pop open and bravely declare, 'It's a girl!'"

The Army has already performed field tests in the Middle East. As U.S. soldiers stormed an ISIS stronghold, one trans soldier screamed, "Grenade!" and threw her grenade, which exploded in a cloud of pink. The other soldiers applauded their sister in arms for her bravery. The soldiers were, of course, slaughtered by ISIS, who just shrugged and laughed when they saw the pink smoke. But what's important, according to the after-action report, is that everyone felt included.

According to the spokesperson, the old frag grenades will be slowly phased out, as they are harmful and triggering to the opposing side in a war. "We look forward to a utopian future where war is just two sides taking turns throwing gender reveal grenades at one another. Surely, that day is coming soon."

America's foes and geopolitical threats all said they are 100% in favor of the change

 

This a comparision among the American, Russian and chinese recruitment videos (in spanish), just pick your warriors

https://www.dodgone.com/blog/bienvenidos-a-la-woke-us-army

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You claim you are not disrespecting the troops yet you post a BS story, 100% false.

Way to go, real classy.

[Walter]

10 minutes ago, BobDobbs said:

You claim you are not disrespecting the troops yet you post a BS story, 100% false.

Way to go, real classy.

More Russian propaganda, courtesy of Kremlin Cruz and a handful (or one) of people around here. 

[Strider]

17 hours ago, BobDobbs said:

You claim you are not disrespecting the troops yet you post a BS story, 100% false.

Way to go, real classy.

The guy has two posts…neither of which have anything remotely to do with Led Zeppelin. Best to ignore him. Eventually, he'll troll somewhere else.

[hummingbird69]

Black Americans had a huge hand in the creation of Memorial Day.

https://time.com/5836444/black-memorial-day/

 

• HISTORY 
• HOLIDAYS
• THE OVERLOOKED BLACK HISTORY OF MEMORIAL DAY 

The Overlooked Black History of Memorial Day

An April 1865 photo of the graves of Union soldiers buried at the race course-turned-Confederate-prison where historians believe the earliest Memorial Day ceremony took place.

 

Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

BY OLIVIA B. WAXMAN 

 

MAY 22, 2020 12:00 PM EDT

Nowadays, Memorial Day honors veterans of all wars, but its roots are in America’s deadliest conflict, the Civil War. Approximately 620,000 soldiers died, about two-thirds from disease.

The work of honoring the dead began right away all over the country, and several American towns claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day. Researchers have traced the earliest annual commemoration to women who laid flowers on soldiers’ graves in the Civil War hospital town of Columbus, Miss., in April 1866. But historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers’ graves a year earlier, to make sure their story gets told too.

According to Blight’s 2001 book Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, a commemoration organized by freed slaves and some white missionaries took place on May 1, 1865, in Charleston, S.C., at a former planters’ racetrack where Confederates held captured Union soldiers during the last year of the war. At least 257 prisoners died, many of disease, and were buried in unmarked graves, so black residents of Charleston decided to give them a proper burial.

Clubhouse at the race course where Union soldiers were held prisoner.

 

Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

In the approximately 10 days leading up to the event, roughly two dozen African American Charlestonians reorganized the graves into rows and built a 10-foot-tall white fence around them. An archway overhead spelled out “Martyrs of the Race Course” in black letters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About 10,000 people, mostly black residents, participated in the May 1 tribute, according to coverage back then in the Charleston Daily Courier and the New York Tribune. Starting at 9 a.m., about 3,000 black schoolchildren paraded around the race track holding roses and singing the Union song “John Brown’s Body,” and were followed by adults representing aid societies for freed black men and women. Black pastors delivered sermons and led attendees in prayer and in the singing of spirituals, and there were picnics. James Redpath, the white director of freedman’s education in the region, organized about 30 speeches by Union officers, missionaries and black ministers. Participants sang patriotic songs like “America” and “We’ll Rally around the Flag” and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” In the afternoon, three white and black Union regiments marched around the graves and staged a drill.

The New York Tribune described the tribute as “a procession of friends and mourners as South Carolina and the United States never saw before.” The gravesites looked like a “one mass of flowers” and “the breeze wafted the sweet perfumes from them” and “tears of joy” were shed.

This tribute, “gave birth to an American tradition,” Blight wrote in Race and Reunion: “The war was over, and Memorial Day had been founded by African Americans in a ritual of remembrance and consecration.”

In 1996, Blight stumbled upon a New York Herald Tribune article detailing the tribute in a Harvard University archive — but the origin story it told was not the Memorial Day history that many white people had wanted to tell, he argues.

About 50 years after the Civil War ended, someone at the United Daughters of the Confederacy asked the Ladies Memorial Association of Charleston to confirm that the May 1, 1865, tribute occurred, and received a reply from one S.C. Beckwith: “I regret that I was unable to gather any official information in answer to this.” Whether Beckwith actually knew about the tribute or not, Blight argues, the exchange illustrates “how white Charlestonians suppressed from memory this founding.” A 1937 book also incorrectly stated that James Redpath singlehandedly organized the tribute — when in reality it was a group effort — and that it took place on May 30, when it actually took place on May 1. That book also diminished the role of the African Americans involved by referring to them as “black hands which only knew that the dead they were honoring had raised them from a condition of servitude.”

An Alfred Waud illustration of the.Union soldiers cemetery known as "Martyrs of the Race course" in Charleston, S.C.

 

Morgan collection of Civil War drawings at the Library of Congress

The origin story that did stick involves an 1868 call from General John A. Logan, president of a Union Army veterans group, urging Americans to decorate the graves of the fallen with flowers on May 30 of that year. The ceremony that took place in Arlington National Cemetery that day has been considered the first official Memorial Day celebration. Memorial Day became a national holiday two decades later, in 1889, and it took a century before it was moved in 1968 to the last Monday of May, where it remains today. According to Blight, Hampton Park, named after Confederate General Wade Hampton, replaced the gravesite at the Martyrs of the Race Course, and the graves were reinterred in the 1880s at a national cemetery in Beaufort, S.C.

The fact that the freed slaves’ Memorial Day tribute is not as well remembered is emblematic of the struggle that would follow, as African Americans’ fight to be fully recognized for their contributions to American society continues to this day.

 

 

 

Edited June 3, 2021 by hummingbird69

[dodgone]

On 6/2/2021 at 2:44 AM, BobDobbs said:

You claim you are not disrespecting the troops yet you post a BS story, 100% false.

Way to go, real classy.

it is an amercan wesiite, the babylon bee.....