Don't Ever Forget

On a day that has become a chance for American commerce to offer you all sorts of savings on cars, sheets, furniture, and whatever other crap they have to peddle to people that have the day off, the true meaning has become submerged in the bullshit. Don’t ever forget them. The soldiers that are buried in some foreign place, the soldiers under the neat rows of white grave markers in your town, the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice to a country that is so willing to forget them and the soldiers who have retired.

Say what you will about the politicians that have second guessed and sold the soldier out, the lies that people in charge of the government have used to employ the military, but never ever malign the soldier, the flag, and his or her sacrifice.

The photo is one I took while at Flanders. The picture is gray and colorless much as the Belgian day I took it but it some how seems fitting. Even the famed poppies were to sad to make an appearance it seems…

Happy Memorial Day to you all and please take a moment, just a moment and think of those who serve, have served, and those who have paid the ultimate price.