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  1. pjohns

    pjohns Well-Known Member

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    Memorial Day is intended as a means of honoring those who have given their lives, while serving in the US military.

    This year, we have some who decline to honor them, because the latter just might--might!--catch the coronavirus (which is seldom fatal, anyway).

    Sometimes this is because of governors' edicts. But not always.

    Am I understanding this correctly?
     
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    Burzmali Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    When you say "some who decline to honor them," how are they declining to honor those who have given their lives while serving in the US military?
     
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    By declining to visit the cemetery--and lay flowers there.
     
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    I fail to see how they is declining to honor those who gave their lives. There are a multitude of ways to honor the fallen. With that said, visiting a gravesite is really low risk, so I would be curious to hear where you heard about someone who refused (or was someone ordered to not visit?) to visit a gravesite because of covid fears.
     
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    "Seldom fatal"?

    Our troops, when not fatally wounded, more often have horrific pains and damage, physically and mentally, and they too have a terrible loss for which the rest of us should give thanks and support and not forget what they pay.

    And the same troops who may be older and have disabilities and deficits are the same people those people think our troops are expendable again.

    Maybe we need to "open it up", but it has a high price again to allow severe disease to be out of this Pandora Box.
     
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    I heard it on the news (FNC, to be precise; and, of course, I know that liberals just hate Fox News).
     
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    I don't mind Fox News as a source, but that isn't very much information. Were they quoting some people who were scared to visit gravesites or something?
     
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    Oh the shock and horror!

    Big deal. If that is your biggest problem then you have a blessed life.
     
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    They were just saying that visitations to these gravesites were down considerably this year.

    Can you think of another reason for that?
     
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    Probably not.

    At least, not if this is an indicator of the current trajectory: from the sacrifice given by the World War Two generation to the sacrifice--even the possible (though not likely) sacrifice of the Millenials.

    Do you see what I am talking about?
     
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    Yes. It doesn't honor the dead to join them, or especially to help others to do so.

    Besides, you're talking about lying on a beach viewing barely clad females after gorging on various outdoor delicacies, let's not get all teary about the heroes of Iwo Jima, OK?
     
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    As I noted previously, it is just possible--but not likely--that others might catch the coronavirus by laying wreaths upon the graves of fallen heroes.

    And it is, in any case, very seldom fatal.

    And just exactly what does "lying on a beach viewing barely clad females after gorging on various outdoor delicacies" have to do with honoring our fallen heroes?
     
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    Because that's what you do on Memorial Day Weekend. You might go a to a graveyard in the morning but mostly it's picnics and feminine pulchritude. It's definitely not all a solemn 72 hours don't deny it.

    And "very seldom" is, to many of us with good sense, sort of a discordant word choice when the other term is "fatal"
     
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    There are other ways to honor people. You might make a contribution to a local Veteran's charity with whatever money you would have spent on flowers. In that way you "decline" to possibly help the spread of the corona virus to a Veteran, many of whom are in the vulnerable population.

    Keep in mind that the whole idea of stay at home is to protect the vulnerable populations much more than yourself. And in light of that I must be missing something too. When did "****'em they're old" become a basic American value our heroes died to protect?
     
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    Please do not change the subject.

    That is definitely not what I have been speaking about.

    And I said "very seldom fatal." (Bold added)
     
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    Why does this need to be an either/or sort of thing?

    And if this is sufficient as a substitute, then why has no one else ever thought of it--in all these years since we have been honoring our fallen veterans, on the last Monday in May?

     

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