Raise the flag…

Memorial Day, to me it’s more important than the 4th. I was fortunate not to have been a target for our country. I tried for the mind was willing but the body wasn’t. Its called 4f, unfit for duty. Now we are in it again and only one time in the last century did blowing away people almost make any sense.

Once again we find ourselves in a mess that our Washington wonders have led us onto, a thorny - path. The old saying still stands the test of time "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". But it’s time that we don’t have nor to many of our soldiers.

It’s a no win deal over there – rational people do not donate their lives and their neighbors in a violent way for the cause of peace. So once again we have placed our youth in harms ways in an illogical cause. It’s these youth and those that are no longer with us that need to be remembered this Memorial Day.

Last Sunday the names of our soldier killed in Iraq were read in church. There was no sermon just the names and I tried picturing their families and the sorrow they were feeling. The emotion hit me like a brick. We are now at about a 10th of the total casualty number in Vietnam let alone the additional number of the mane.

So pause for a moment over the weekend between brats and beer and think about those in the line of fire and truthfully ask yourself, What are we doing over there? It’s either we have a 100% commitment or pull the plug, non of this in the middle of the road stuff while stepping on a landmines.