Memorial Day Celebrations, 2017, at Cemeteries Across the Country
Memorial Day is upon us! However, I have read in several national publications headlines such as “AMERICANS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT MEMORIAL DAY IS” or in another well-known blog, “As Memorial Day observations wane in popularity, powerful lessons remain.” “.
What had been a solemn day of remembrance for those who gave their all in our nation’s wars as members of our armed forces, those who paid the ultimate price to ensure the freedom we enjoy in America today, unlike almost everyone else? has sadly become a day as CNBC headlines advise, “How to Get the Best Shopping Deals This Memorial Day Weekend.”
Sad but not surprising when you teach American youth, especially immigrant youth, who are sadly ignorant of even the basic premises of our country’s laws and principles, less and less about our country’s founding and history, including the fact that we had to fight. to earn what we have, and fight a little harder to keep it. Furthermore, it is not surprising that school curricula have almost completely eliminated “civics” classes, substituting them with poorly engendered classes on the negative aspects of our history.
With the help and complicity of crazed liberals like circuit court judges, graduates of strongholds of far-left ideology like Berkley and others, and groups as misbehaving and misbehaving as “Black Lives Matter” or the new liberal hoax, dangerous, but a hoax: “Resist,” or perhaps of an even more sinister nature, “Media Matters.”
So, I’m fighting the liberals. I have written a poem about the meaning of Memorial Day as a reminder of what the price of our freedom has been for over two hundred years.
Memorial Day Celebrations, 2017, at Cemeteries Across the Country
A million American flags will be unfurled, and more,
And invited dignitaries will justly testify,
In our many scattered hallowed parks
Where our true American heroes rest.
Some will issue a lofty proclamation
To confirm our strongest determination,
And express why this day is considered solemn,
That is why today we remember our many, many fallen.
When their lively dialogues fade,
Desperate bugles sound,
Like the creepy tension of Taps
Echoes over those hallowed grounds.
Throughout our indebted nation, wherever stone statues are to be found,
From Arlington National, in every direction, proudly, American flags, road after road.
Shall we then take a moment to wander these hallowed lands,
Noticing names etched in granite whose rare value won the day.
Shall we express our gratitude to those who gave their all,
Honoring their selflessness while carrying out the call of duty,
And pay the measure of his sacrifice so gallant, so brave,
As we silently nod our heads towards each and every grave?
When the sun is going down, and we’re all wandering home,
Shall we pause with pride and honor, and marvel at what we have seen?
And promise ourselves, and those who rest in silence,
Return more often, granting all those who rest there our highest esteem?