Memorial Day 2019, part II

There was so much going on Monday that I missed a few items.   Rolling Thunder is apparently getting a  rather hefty  donation —  well-deserved I should add,  and the  saluting sergeant  was back again.

Sully,  the service dog of the late Pres. George H. W. Bush,  used his Instagram account  to comment  on the occasion.   Too many of us don’t even understand  the occasion.   Some who live elsewhere understand perfectly  and honor  our fallen.

Vice President Mike Pence  laid a wreath  at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.   President Trump was on  a ship deployed in the Pacific.   Some of the Marine aviators who  were wearing pro-Trump badges on the USS Wasp will earn a slap on the wrist for their antics.   It has always been  the soldier, not the politicians who steps forward for all of us,  and too many of them have died doing so.   The freedoms we  enjoy as Americans have often been purchased with their blood.   You owe them all your best efforts to retain those freedoms,  especially in  the face  of Hollywood ignorance.

We’ve always had  heroes fighting  for us.    We remain in peril,  so we  still need  them.   We always need women such as the  Twelve Anchors.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw makes it personal with  his remembrances  of his brother SEALs.   Complete strangers attended a Korean War veteran’s funeral because it was the right thing to do for  an old man  whose only family member could not be there due to ill health.   The Missing In America Project did right  by burying  42 unclaimed veterans.   A Catholic high school in Massachusetts  holds funerals  for homeless vets.

What amazes me is that this nation,  despite its trials and tribulations,  still manages to produce such heroes,  willing to give all for their countrymen.  Patriotism has become unfashionable,  but it is all the more necessary.