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In the Commonwealth, today is Remembrance Sunday. Originally, it was a day of solemn memorial of those fallen in the “Great War” (World War I). It has never degenerated as badly as the American Memorial Day, it’s closer in spirit to the Russian Victory Day. To commercialise such a day of memory is obscene in the extreme… that’s why I support Senator Daniel Inouye‘s (D-HI) initiative to return Memorial Day to its original date of 28 May. Note well that the loud n’ proud leader in this patriotic initiative is a LIBERAL DEMOCRAT, NOT a “conservative” Republican! Today is a day to honour all the heroes from all the wars. If there’s a vet who had to fight in the cockamamie Afghan War or the Iraq War, buy them a beer and smile with them. They’re NOT responsible for the madness of the rightwing politicians. They put their lives on the line, and that’s ALWAYS worthy of respect.
In the lines of the famous poem from Olga Berggolts… “They all faces, they all had names… No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten”. “Lest we forget…”
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