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First off, Happy Memorial Day to all.

Now on to my topic. In another thread I referenced NPR for my source. Some of you took exception to that because of their left leaning tendencies.

I was listening to NPR this morning. Remember, we do not get many radio stations around here, In fact, when I lived in a more civilized place I never listened to NPR.

This morning, NPR was broadcasting the names and locations of service men lost in the current war. They seemed to do this every fifteen minutes or so. I wonder how many other radio stations are doing this? After all, look at the calendar and see what we are suppose to be celebrating today. I never remember any other radio station doing this

Seems as though NPR might be a little more patriotic then most other radio stations.
 
I don't take it that way...it's actually 180 degrees the OTHER way.

It's a typical liberal anti-Iraq-war tactic as some of the cable news (such as CNN's "The Situation Room" and that POS guy Wolf Blitzer uses) so there's nothing patriotic about it. And knowing how liberal NPR is, it's probably in that anti-war/anti-Bush vein, to protest the war and to turn viewers against it, too, by constantly parading American body-counts on the screen...or radio.

The media did this same politicizing BS during the Viet Nam war days...and as a RVN vet, I can tell you that the media was an enemy THEN to us as it is NOW to the soldiers in Iraq.

-- John D.
 
Re:cloudcroft

So playing a rerun of the Limbaugh program is more patriotic?

I was under the impression that this day was to honor our men and women in uniform. I guess to most it has become an extra day at the lake or a day to buy that blouse on sale.
 
I guess to most it has become an extra day at the lake or a day to buy that blouse on sale.
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Sad but true. Holidays tend to devolve thusly when they are "moved" from the traditional observation date to provide long weekends for the masses - the links to the historic reasons for observance are removed.
 
While I have the upmost respect for our veterans and the things they do and have done, I think this is another example of the NPR (and most of the media) focusing on the negative. I have no problem with paying tribute to these fallen heroes. But every day, I turn on the news, get online, or open the paper, and all I see and hear are news of more US casualties. I never hear about insurgents being killed or captured, the end of genocide, tourture, rape, and murder, or anything about the freedoms Iraqis now enjoy thanks to nations like the US, Britian, Australia and others. That's another thing they don't like you to know. We aren't the only country with troops on the ground in Iraq. I lost a good friend in Iraq in late '05. He had absolutely nothing bad to say about the war. All he had to say was that we are doing a good thing, helping lots of good and thankful people there, and getting rid of people that the world is better off without.

Someday I hope everyone realizes that the war against Islamic extremism is the fight of our lives and a fight we can't afford to lose.
 
I was under the impression that this day was to honor our men and women in uniform. I guess to most it has become an extra day at the lake or a day to buy that blouse on sale.
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I've always thought that Memorial Day was to remember the dead, and Veteran's Day was to honor the living soldiers/vets. Am I wrong?
 
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women's groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, "Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping" by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication "To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead" (Source: Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920). While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it's difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860's tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868. It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.

http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html
 
Conflation at it's finest. If you don't support the war you don't support the troops. If you hate this administration, you hate America.:rolleyes:
 
Re:donh

Thanks for the great response. I agree with you that today is for honoring. NPR did just that today. I hope the rest of us did too.
 
I don't know if it is left-wing, right-wing or somewhere in the middle to remember those who died in the service but people have been doing it for a long time. However, I might note that these readings of people's names is something of a current trend, compared with things in the past.

It seems that war memorials and such like have to wait until twenty-five or thirty years after the war before the veterans get around to building them. I guess most of them are too busy with other things in the meantime. But a lot of Civil War momuments, for instance, were not built until about that long after the war, at least on battlefields. A lot of the momuments were either generals on horseback or something like that and the battlefield momuments often as not are to particular units. A lot of the momuments today are different, perhaps only because generals don't ride horses anymore (Is there one of Patton on horseback?). Some of the national monuments attempt to list either all who died or all who served. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall is not the only one there that does that. Another momument just a short distance away is to D.C. veterans of WWI. It lists all the names, as far as I know. There are one or two other similar monuments in the District.

Small town, local monuments sometimes do the same thing, since the projects are rather more manageable. If anyone happens to go to the Outer Banks of N.C., go see the monument in front of the court house in Manteo. That's about as small town as it gets. And you know, going to war is not a conservative thing to do, nor is it liberal. So what does that make it?
 
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