My wet blanket for Memorial Day.

[Zundfolge]

What's that saying, i'm sure some of us remember?


“My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”

Yes, and Gen. Schurz got to say that AFTER being victorious in a civil war. A civil where the other side was a minority that simply wanted to leave, not stay and shove Marxism down our throats.

I'm not saying American can't be great again, but I just don't see it happening without a lot of unpleasantness and that unpleasantness will make the likelihood of it being "set right" even less.

Maybe I've been reading too much Ann Barnhardt lately, but in recent years I've come to see that the real problem with America isn't the corruption of its institutions, that is merely a symptom of the deeper corruption of its people. Many of us here have shielded ourselves from the truly reprehensible people that Americans have become, one way we do that is to shroud ourselves in the traditions and patriotism of our forefathers. No group of Americans does this more than those that have served in the armed forces. And it is those, arguably our best and brightest, that have suffered and sacrificed for a nation of people that simply do not deserve their sacrifice.

I ain't done fighting, but I've resigned myself to the fact that what I fight for may very well end up being a new Republic ... hopefully located roughly where the old one was.


America is an idea, not a nation. I still believe in the superiority of that idea, I just think most Americans are more concerned about getting their check (or more to the point, making sure rich white capitalists don't get theirs) and who's going to win American Idol or the Superbowl. More interested in Caeser's panem et circenses.


Anyway, most days I'm able to shove all this thinking aside and get on with the daily business of life ... but Memorial Day is for me a reminder of what we've lost.

The first sentence of your OP says it all.

So I was talking to one of my neighbors who noticed that I didn't have my flag flying this Memorial Day ... I changed the subject.

You inform the electronic world of your actions yet didn't have the spine to tell your neighbor what you did???

A TRUE PATRIOT Stands his grounds no matter the consequences. Looks like your line in the sand is as flexible as our CIC's.

But dispose away, and keep changing the subject.

I can see your point, but a polite neighbor doesn't lay a heavy trip on someone just making polite conversation.

But hey, I guess I'm not as pious as you Jim ... weren't you blocking me anyway?