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It’s still Memorial Day, and never too late to showcase some of the dumbest Americans that Mark Dice can find on the streets of California.. 

I really enjoyed the working theme that Memorial Day was more for surfers who lost their lives..

Any one see why the VA is as bad as it is? I’d venture to say some who work there don’t even know the promise that was meant to be kept.

I am laughing in spite of myself at this..

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MEMORIAL DAY 2013: American War Deaths Through History

There’s been a lot of people who we should pause for today.. the numbers tell the story on their own.

MEMORIAL DAY 2013: American War Deaths Through History

Memorial Day weekend continues. Three days for many, but the pain that occurred to create this holiday is purely evident.
It all began as a celebration of those who perished during the Civil War.. Perhaps just too many other wars had taken place by the time it was expanded to dedicate a day to all lives lost during warfare.. We celebrate with barbeques and picnics, family outings and trips.. but pause for a moment and hear the distsant and faint sound of canon fire, musket fire, and gunfire from the past. And realize that even today wars are continuing (for better or worse) that will lead many more names and lost lives to be cherished for Memorial Days to come..

'Winter' - maybe even snow - to return for Memorial Day weekend

The weather is always weird.
But this is weird

'Winter' - maybe even snow - to return for Memorial Day weekend

The real meaning of Memorial Day: Those who do not return alive.

Do not lose the meaning of this day..

A member of the U.S. Army Old Guard places a flag at one of the over 220,000 graves of fallen U.S. military service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery, May 24, 2012. 

Flashback: Dead American soldiers dumped into landfills like trash

We should be more aware of these types of events.. We should be fully aware of attempts to not give veterans the care they deserve. 

For those who don’t make it home, the most they deserve from everywhere still here is respect, dignity, and at the very least, a salute. Not to be dumped into a landfill with trash …

Flashback: Dead American soldiers dumped into landfills like trash

This is a truth that your blinds can't cover: 45% of Iraq and Afghanistan war vets file for disability

This is a truth that your blinds can't cover: 45% of Iraq and Afghanistan war vets file for disability

Respect.. 

Duty.

Matthew Russell, 11, from Memphis prepares to place American flags at the headstones of veterans during the Memorial Day observance ceremony at the Memphis National Cemetery in Memphis

Madeline Grace Wallace, 4, carries flags at the National Cemetery in Little Rock, Ark., Friday, May 25, 2012. The girl and her mother visited the cemetery to place flags on graves for Memorial Day. 

A child doesn’t know the horror of war. At least most children. 

We should want to keep it that way.

In the middle if your beer, or barbecue, or party, remember that Memorial Day is perhaps the most solemn of national holidays. It is one to contemplate the decorations of the post-Civil War days and recall the casualties of the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers that died during battle. We should also give pause to one thought: If you do end up going to a 21 gun salute somewhere in America, how do we strive to be slow to go to war and quick to try peace? How can we in such a turbulent world? Syria kills children with pacifiers in their mouths.. Drones strike in Pakistan.. Oh, and drones will patrol America, too. 

But I digress.

Memorial Day 2012. Do not let this holiday lose the meaning it is intended to have. Do now cheapen it with a useless day of nothingness. Do not..

But here is the sneaking fear that scares me.. in 1945, the big picture was clear: We stopped a tyrant who was killing millions. Ever since then things got murky. And in Iraq and Afghanistan…? Well do we even know who we’re fighting now? Do we have a clue who the tyrants are? And how can you fight the tyrants when they litter this planet like plastic in an ocean?

All thoughts I for one am having this Memorial Day..

There's rain and hail on the highways where I'm driving today

Thank God for rest stops (Few people of much sense are Ever appreciative of rest stops…but bad weather suddenly changes that)

Hope your Memorial Day travels are filled with sun and fun.. And if not be careful out there…

I can't say I wouldn't have been angry too: Anger at a cemetary at overgrowth of weeds and grass

I can't say I wouldn't have been angry too: Anger at a cemetary at overgrowth of weeds and grass

Memorial Day 2011

A scout salutes as he helps place some of 100,000 U.S. flag near head stones at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in honor of Memorial Day, Friday, May 27, 2011, in San Antonio, Texas.

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

I envy people who start holiday weekends early.. And secretly laugh when they leave early just to get stuck in traffic.