Breitbart: While Americans consistently rank Christmas as the most important holiday, followed by the Fourth of July, the importance of Memorial Day is “rated higher than ever,” according to new a Rasmussen Reports poll.
More than half of American adults (51 percent) consider Memorial Day, which is for honoring those who have died while serving in the U.S. military, as one of the nation’s most important holidays. That percentage is up from 47 percent last year and is the highest percentage recorded since Rasmussen began asking about Memorial Day.
Thirty-seven percent of those polled say Memorial Day is “somewhere in between” and a small 7 percent say it is one of the nation’s least important holidays.
Rasmussen Reports surveyed 1,086 American adults between May 16-18 with a ±3 percent margin of error at the 95 percent confidence level. Of those respondents, 18 percent report having served in the U.S. military, while 80 percent have not. Forty percent of respondents say they have close friends or relatives who gave their lives while serving in the military.
“Memorial Day has a greater importance to Americans who have served in the military, 79 percent of whom rate it as one of our nation’s most important holidays, compared to 47 percent who have not been in the military,” according to the poll report. more
As it should be!
Some gave all and all gave some. I am of the vast majority of veterans who gave some of my life in service to this great country. Memorial Day is a solemn day of remembrance and gratitude and thankfulness for all those who gave their lives for our freedom as Americans.
It’s our most important day of remembrance. So many have died or have been gravely injured. All the other holidays, other than Easter, pale in importance.
Other than Veterans Day.
As a military vet myself and one who will always be eternally grateful for those that died so that I could live in comfort and in a land of plenty, I recognize that a seismic shift has occurred, both in combat readiness and in the attitudes of our young men in their willingness to defend this land, and the culprit is progressivism and wokeness.
But, of course, nobody expresses it more eloquently than my favorite congressman;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvc2xxYitoY
The military used to be a place where a young man could find himself, could satisfy that pang of patriotism, could find purpose and a set of skills, and would come out not only a better man but a better citizen.
What little honor there is left in serving is being slowly strangled by a culture that is anti-American, subordinating military readiness and cohesion for diversity and inclusion, and where toxic masculinity, the only real masculinity, is punished.
The erosion of our military is probably, of our degrading traditions, the one that I lament the most.
I miss Ghost of Brigadier General ….um… Hoozenfratz…
I liked him.
I posted this on Marshall’s thread, Thoght it might belong here as well. I wasn’t good enough to serve in the military myself, but that doesn’t stop me from appreciating those?, like my own father, that did. God bless and thank you all.
We have a few soldiers, sailors, and airmen in the family who have gone to their reward, so we paid our respects as we do on Memorial Day, but I thought I’d bring you to the grave of one in particular I mentioned a few days back. If you look at the Gravitar I’m using here you can meet John Bird, a Tennessee calvryman on the Union side in 1863. He’s a relative on my wife’s side, exactly how doesn’t matter, but we found out about John through her aunt’s genealogy project and found he was interred in Cincinnati not far from us. Its tough to find a lot of details about John. Seems he married, had children, enlisted, and has an issue in 1863 that resulted in his being sent to Camp Dennison, Ohio, where the Union had a volunteer intake/hospital/small prison camp, where he passed and ended up interred first there, then moved to a local cemetary in 1869. That’s his stone in tbe center foreground, four rings of markers down from the upended Parrot rifle in the center.
I bring up John not because he’s famous or well-known or covered in glory, because as far as we can tell he’s not. I bring him up rather because he’s quite ordinary, a man who started a family when events he did not control made him take up arms and ultimately lose his life when internecine political differences became irreconcilable.
I know not what John thought of this, was he ardent, was he reluctant, was he a warrior or a farmer at heart.
But what I do know is that there are 5 rings around that Parrot rifle of men such as him. 5 rings of stones, each representing an ordinary man who stepped up in his time and was cut down serving his Nation. There’s perhaps a couple hundred or more in those 5 rings, I didn’t count, but this is just ONE such area. There are, in this cemetary, THREE upended Parrot rifles, each with its OWN set of 5 rings, and with many more stones in the section to OTHER Civil War dead, whose families went the cost of other stones and family plots, perhaps better known or better financed but all laid together at rest with the common bond of having fallen when their Nation needed them.
Bear in mind that Cincinnati was pretty rear echelon. Other than Morgan’s Raiders passing through, selling pork to the South to Grant’s displeasure, and one of the Southern generals coming to Covington Ky and deciding Cincinnati was too well-defended to attack, it was NOT a major theatre.
And yet it hosts hundreds of war dead.
I’ve been to Gettysburg, to Shiloh, to Antietam, to Fredericksburg. The butcher’s bill was much, much higher. Lots of times men were interred where they fell, it was simply too hard at the time to do anything else, many, like John, were disintered after the war and reburied, but many were not.
As we slide inexorably closer to another Democrat driven Civil War, let us remember the awful price the last one extracted, the dead, the maimed, familes torn apart like the Bird family was from some lucky shot or capricious fall. Remember those hundreds his remains rest with, those thousands that died across this nascent Nation, all those men that made the ultimate sacrifice in the cause of freedom.
And let those worn, nearly unreadable stones stare at us as bleached reminders of the whitened corpses of those that bled for the cause of liberty, as harbingers of the blood sacrifice yet to come.
Because freedom isn’t free.
May God grant rest in Heaven for all those fallen, May He bring comfort to those that loved them, supported them, and mourned them. May tbe Lord give them Blessed Assurance that their fallen reside with Him, and may He hold His protective hand over those that served and survived, and those that serve yet, and those who will be called, like John Bird, to serve once more in the cause of freedom when the time comes.
“Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:”
Psalm 144:1
God Bless all who served and served yet on this and every Memorial Day. There are many who do appreciate what you have done, are doing, and will do.
Thank you.
God Bless,
SNS
Aaron Burr
AT 12:18 AM
“I miss Ghost of Brigadier General ….um… Hoozenfratz…
I liked him.”
Ghost of Brig. Gen. J. Glover
https://iotwreport.com/sad-news-2/
I miss him to. I think all the long-timers do.
Aw, you’re all broke and unmotivated. Last time I was here… like.. 2 weeks ago… You all said it was a good idea that we should all pitch in and get his fambly a pimped out classic truck.
Did I hear from anyone?
No.
This is why it’s me…well, me and Wok-Hay against the world.
But bless Genl’ Glovers soul.