Chicago Boyz

                 
 
 
What Are Chicago Boyz Readers Reading?
 

 
  •   Enter your email to be notified of new posts:
  •   Problem? Question?
  •   Contact Authors:

  • CB Twitter Feed
  • Blog Posts (RSS 2.0)
  • Blog Posts (Atom 0.3)
  • Incoming Links

  • Recent Comments

    • Loading...

  • Authors

  • Notable Discussions

  • Recent Posts

  • Blogroll

  • Categories

  • Archives

    • «
    »

    Memorial Day

    Posted by Lexington Green on May 27th, 2012 (All posts by )

    God bless our veterans, living and dead. God bless America.

     

    This entry was posted on Sunday, May 27th, 2012 at 8:29 pm and is filed under Holidays, Military Affairs, USA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    17 Responses to “Memorial Day”

    1. Bill Brandt Says:
      May 27th, 2012 at 9:35 pm

      God bless those who died, those who were maimed, both physically and mentally, and their families too…

    2. Subotai Bahadur Says:
      May 27th, 2012 at 10:54 pm

      *sigh*

      Of course, on this one issue, the American media will present the other side.

      http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2012/05/27/chris-hayes-im-uncomfortable-calling-fallen-military-heroes#ixzz1w6mBDLvo

      Subotai Bahadur

    3. Bill Brandt Says:
      May 27th, 2012 at 11:00 pm

      Those people are amazing Subotai.

      And you saw it on MS-NBC.

    4. David Foster Says:
      May 28th, 2012 at 9:15 am

      For anyone who hasn’t yet seen this music video, I recommend it highly:

      Carbon Leaf, The war was in color

    5. elf Says:
      May 28th, 2012 at 9:40 am

      Today most of the world and most of man lives yet in bondage and hunger. Americans and many others don’t, the Fallen we Remember Today paid for their freedoms with their lives. Remember on Memorial Day.

    6. PenGun Says:
      May 28th, 2012 at 3:20 pm

      So really all your dead are heroes? The word has a meaning that does not include nationality you know, still you do love drama as a nation. Sadly your ‘warrior heroes’ are just ‘soldiers who died’.

      Why not mourn the reality? Does it all have to be some kind of Hollywood movie?

    7. Dan from Madison Says:
      May 28th, 2012 at 6:09 pm

      PenGun, you really are a caricature of yourself at times. Consider yourself banned/deleted from any future comment threads of mine.

    8. Subotai Bahadur Says:
      May 28th, 2012 at 6:14 pm

      Dan from Madison Says on
      May 28th, 2012 at 6:09 pm

      PenGun, you really are a caricature of yourself at times. Consider yourself banned/deleted from any future comment threads of mine.

      BRAVO ZULU

      Subotai Bahadur

    9. tyouth Says:
      May 28th, 2012 at 8:43 pm

      I’m having trouble framing the words and, as I write this comment, in my mind I’m hemming and hawing. Oh well, first time for everything.

      PenGun, you have a point there.

      It’s high praise and enough to say that a soldier has died for their country and we are grateful. Heroic behavior is an identifiable and a specific kind of behavior and most of those killed are not engaged in that extraordinary behavior.

    10. Lexington Green Says:
      May 28th, 2012 at 8:59 pm

      PenGun, occasionally i agree with you. Here you miss the point. We leave it to the people of other countries to commemorate their dead soldiers with whatever words or ceremonies seem fit to them. Each country has its own memory and story of the past. So be it. It takes nothing away from us that they do, and it takes nothing from that we do. Everyone should tend their own graves in their own way.

    11. PenGun Says:
      May 28th, 2012 at 9:48 pm

      “PenGun, you really are a caricature of yourself at times.”

      The pot …. calling the kettle black. I hope that’s not too abstruse for you.

    12. Dan from Madison Says:
      May 29th, 2012 at 6:35 am

      Hey PenGun – it is nothing personal…just business.

    13. Bill Brandt Says:
      May 29th, 2012 at 8:45 am

      @Dan – there is a fascinating article on trolls in This Week Magazine – how their nastiness erodes discourse. From the Huffington Post to….here.

      The subtitle is “The sheer nastiness of some nameless commenters is poisoning discourse on the web. Does it have to be this way?

      As to “Pengun” I learned to ignore him.

      I’ll try and get a url for you this evening.

    14. Dan from Madison Says:
      May 30th, 2012 at 5:34 am

      @Bill – I am in internet veteran and have seen plenty of PenGuns come and go. It is always the same bile. It just makes my life easier to not let my future threads get hijacked by him (her?) and their like. I have been pretty tolerant in the past but it just gets boring.

    15. Bill Brandt Says:
      May 30th, 2012 at 7:43 am

      @Dan – I am not perfect. I do know that I sometimes swerve from topic to topic but if I get too far just slap me on the head ;-)

      But you can tell when people are just trying to be incendiary and poison the conversation. The This Week article

      was saying that it is really across political lines.

      They are everywhere.

    16. Dan from Madison Says:
      May 30th, 2012 at 8:59 am

      “But you can tell when people are just trying to be incendiary and poison the conversation.” This.

    17. PenGun Says:
      June 2nd, 2012 at 7:04 pm

      Oh please you lot just stroke each other. It’s a little strange even sometimes. I just add a little perspective to your right wing love fest.

    «
    »