I never knew that freed slaves were the genesis of Decoration Day. But of course they were. Oppressed people are by and large, closer to God. And these freed slaves honoring Civil War dead were honoring their God who used these men to give them, and their generations after, liberty.
RIP. Memorial day should include the memory of all those casualties killed by the enemy fire: haccines! Enlisting shouldn't mean signing to become human guinea pigs! Syringe fodder!
Also, memorial day should emphasize the remembrance of all those murdered by false flags (manufactured crisis for enriching bankers and the Military Industrial Complex):
- Pearl Harbor
- Gulf of Tonkin
- 9/11
- COVID
- George Floyd
- NATO/Ukraine
- 10/7
etc.
There’s only one way to honor fallen heroes’ sacrifice: expose the truth so that there are no more deaths and they didn't die in vain!
It's not just corruption of the top military ranks, politicians and media, it's the clockwork coordination which should raise your DEFCON to 1!
We've got a very small window of opportunity to fight or ... die (they want to murder 95% of us).
President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”
Sorry, but that is just revisionist history peddled by a anti-white radical liberal named David Bight in his book "Race and Reunion"... he also wrote other anti-white, pro-black revisionist tropes like "Fredrick Douglas, Prophet of Freedom", and "American Oracle: The Civil war in the civil rights era".
The local South Carolina newspaper records freed slaves as helping to exhume Union soldier bodies from mass grave and proper individual burials and decorating those graves. They freed Blacks built a protective fence around the graves with sign over that said ‘Martyrs of the Race Track’ (mass grave was at race track). Making the White and Black people who did this, as forerunners to Decorations Day. That was later renamed Memorial Day. You can call this revisionist history if you’d like. I view it as history not widely shared because it did not fit narrative of Reconstruction and Jim Crow of the time. If I was a defeated Confederate citizen I wouldn’t like it either, hence the fence. But 152 years later, this piece of history UNITES White and Blacks. DEI does the opposite. It takes wisdom to discern between the two in today’s polarized world? MAGA.
Nice try... this load of BS came from the same source... Blight's books.
He had an obvious agenda and that was not TRUTH, just DEI.
Certainly freed slaves could have been the laborers in exhuming bodies, but joining with white soldiers in a Kumbaya celebration of harmony and equality is laughable.
Read a few of Blights books before continuing to spout your drivel.
Decoration Day was a tradition prior to the Civil War, largely practiced in Appalachia/South, and most common in two states which didn't join the Confederacy, Kentucky and West Virginia. Lying about history doesn't unite anyone, and the lead revisionists on Civil War/Reconstruction history are almost always openly or closeted Marxists. Their goal is to divide, not unite. There are way more sources than this, but the notion that a group of freed slaves just spontaneously invented this tradition is ludicrous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoration_Day_(tradition)
You are correct. The decoration of gravesites is a long-held Southern/Appalachian tradition. Growing up, Decoration was always on Mother's Day. We decorated the gravesites of our passed family members. Prior to the Civil War, there wouldn't have been any military/veterans cemeteries. The National Cemetery Administration credits a women's organization from Columbus, GA with the origination of Memorial Day, which was originally known as Decoration Day. The other places a day of gravesite Decoration is common is in certain parts of Great Britain and Liberia. I have no doubt that freed slaves in Charleston honored fallen soldiers by decorating their graves, but they didn't invent the practice. It's a practice they learned from their former owners.
Just part of the massive attempts to promote negroes.
I'm not sure what the agenda is... probably something to do with breaking down American society. Race-mixing, porn galore, massive political corruption, promotion of pedophilia and sexualization of youth, financial disaster looming... all related?
I've lived in the South for my entire life, and I don't know a single person who uses that language - "negroes" and "race-mixing". It's revolting.
With that said, there has been a multidecade long struggle session between the Republican Party and Southern historical traditions and emblems. The GOP is happy to have our votes, but many of them are repulsed by our history, traditions, and culture. The Straussians (neoconservatives) don't like Southern conservatism, so they demonize Southern culture/traditions/heroes. The most recognizable example is a series of dumb videos produced by Prager U. The only prominent Republican in my lifetime who attempted to defend them was Trump when he spoke after the Charlottesville hit-and-run incident. I can only imagine that Jeff Childers was scrolling through his facebook or twitter feed and saw some Prager U, Victor Davis Hansen, or other similar account post a video or article about "the true story about where Memorial Day originated". I'm just explaining why Jeff would share woke garbage history - he did it because Prager U it. And the GOP pushes it because they want black votes. So you can expect more of it until the Democrats start trying to cancel Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in earnest.
I loved that last part too. It can’t be repeated enough: “And may we, who do not fight, never stop being the kind of people who are worth fighting for.”
In another battle long ago, there was a Man who sacrificed everything for people who He knew weren't worth dying for but His love compelled Him to do so. Romans 5:8 puts it this way: "But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." How humbling it is to think of God's great love for us and how grateful I am that there have been men and women who laid down their lives so that I could write this today without fear of retaliation from godless tyrants.
If you sacrifice your life for tyrants, you enable tyranny. If you sacrifice your life serving the light, you are serving God. What benighted mind to sacrifice your life for tyrant Man instead of God. You are serving the dark forces not God
Same here. To think that since the Civil War, other than the attack on Pearl Harbor, we’ve not had war in our land—such an amazing blessing. Unfortunately, we’ve become so soft and ungrateful as a result. Our grandfathers and fathers were made of a different kind of metal, for sure. That prayer of General Patton’s was surely the key to that costly victory . Many thanks to our military folks now serving. May God bless and keep you and your families. And may we elect strong, wise leaders who understand that war takes our best and brightest.
we have war at home. just an undeclared one with our own intelligence services working under the direction of Soros and the Globalists as a fifth column to destroy our way of life. Manchurian candidates, mind control, directed mass shootings, destroying our economy, our health, spreading terror and mayhem. It's a war against the guerrilla warriors funded by outside forces to destroy the US.
Yes, may we ever be the kind of people worth fighting for.....but also came to my mind that God sought us and Christ died for us while we when we were not worth dieing for.
Indeed those are valid questions, and that is probably because of the confusion that he first imparted the Ten Commandments of a working society that could live in peace and prosper. But the free will to chose or not to chose, to decide or not to decide, to believe or not to believe always is left to individual choices. It is the collectivist that blackmail/extort the rights of others to chose for themselves what is not necessarily in their best interest. False flag accusations as the "justified" euphemisms of designing an artful men and women to gain an unjust advantage over and above their neighbors to extend unwarranted claims of "jurisdiction" over them. Even when these frauds and swindles are openly exposed, as the scripture teaches me "The wicked do not know shame" is reflected by the apathy and insouciance of the general population. We cannot follow 10 simple rules but we are somehow expected to follow millions of arbitrary opinions and scribbling s that political zeitgeist dub as "Law". Go figure.
Me too. Still crying. My Dad was Army during WWII. Mostly in Europe (France, then Germany), then a bit in the Philippines. He absolutely never talked about it. The only snippet I have is that he received a 10% disability, for all the broken bones he had in his feet, from jumping from poles, trees and roofs while stringing wire. He was a prime sniper target, and frequently bailed quickly.
There is a great 4-part Netflix on the life of Captain Felix Sparks, one of the amazing unknown heroes of World War 2. "The Liberator". I highly recommend this series; once you get past the animation, it is totally engrossing.
Felix Sparks led battalions in the Battle of the Bulge and survived. He is buried in Lakewood CO; the post office in Lakewood is named in his honor. Here is a short bio: https://news.va.gov/83607/felix-sparks-liberator/
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13) Thank you for sharing these stories of your family, and of the history of Memorial Day. Never stop sharing, never stop reminding.
We had a tree taken down and decided to put up a flag pole in time for Memorial Day. Mother Nature hasn't cooperated and has sent rain every day for days on end. Finally got the concrete poured yesterday and we STiLL had to cover it because- surprise!- it rained again. Hopefully it can go up today.
@Stacy- Bill (husband) is (almost) 69 with a heart problem (thanks, Fauci!) and still works 4 days/week building engines even though he's retired, maintains the house and yard, and never gives up. He would have made an incredible soldier.
I can remember having a tooth abscess while at my grandfathers in Cape Canaveral as a kid, my entire face swollen, the pain was excruciating....my Pop Pop soothed me, told me to scream, that no one remembered fully what it felt like to feel pain in the moment and that there was no honor in keeping quiet.....no doubt a learned battlefield gesture to the wounded. I honor both my grandfathers today, Army vs Navy, Colonel vs Captain. Bulge vs Pacific. Thank you for giving all you had for future generations. I hope we can remember what made you the Greatest Generation and employ that same perspective in these times. Focus on the future and the youth. Honor the idea and convictions of the Greatest Generation..... that we might feel pain in our times so their future burden might be lighter, its the American way.
More than once, President Trump nearly had to lay down his life in his attempt to oppose the forces of chaos and war overtaking America and the world in our day. As POTUS, he cannot make up for all the past sins of our nation over the last many decades or even all of the ones which are still fresh on our minds. He has accomplished much so far with hopefully much more to come but he needs the support of a repentant people who will confess the sins of the nation before God and beseech the Lord in common prayer to forgive our sins and send His Spirit to renew the soul of America to serve God and His Righteousness. Then may God in His Providence continue to protect Trump with a divine hedge and guide his efforts to bring peace to the world and to America. If we confess our sins on this Memorial Day and repentant of the past bloodshed, the Lord will hear us and strengthen us in the coming battle.
We must not be discouraged or dissuaded from this national effort which requires all our support. So consider these words posted by our brother Dave this Thursday past: "The United States coming clean respective its dark darker history of the past several decades is not going to get headline priority status because the immediate peril is the country on the brink going down the drain in a leveling devastating financial ruin. Therefore, the best we can realistically expect from the government and any administration trying to save the country is partial remedy, not out right confession and cleansing. Yeah! This is a bitter pill for me. But realistically saving the country from going down the tubes is going to be the focus, not the confession booth.
"Still, all this said, its the job of the American people to always shout the truth in a way which cannot be ignored. It is a moral duty to do so. Otherwise bad things happen again and again."
You raise a most important point. The churches of America should be leading the way but the church as a whole has abdicated her prophetic role of applying God's Word to the culture and society. The American churches are in need of revival and reformation.
"...My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Our government has a considerable about of truth telling that needs to come out. Excusing the lies, deception, and cover ups just means business as usual and enough is enough.
Do you think Christians comprise at least 15% of the American population?......................................................
How Empires And Nations Divide
Armstrong
....separations and revolutions have ALWAYS taken place with the minority and not the majority. The average number of what percent of the population is required to pull off a separation or revolution is LESS THAN 15%!!!!!
Pulling together this research blew my mind. This goes against what most would expect. It also shows how this process has unfolded; not all are violent...
Or South Africa, thinking of the Lara Logan interview with Alex Jones?
I told my sons the war on the Africaner is little different than war on Whites in America under Marxist Woke rule. And in regard to this and America, the Marxist would love to slaughter us like they do Boer Farmers in South Africa. The only thing holding them back are numbers. There are just too many Whites in America at seventy percent of the population. And therefor they have to be much more devious and longer term minded on how American Whites are to be liquidated. Make no mistake! This is the goal of the Marxists that want to destroy this country and they have made a good start. I don't know if the Trump regime will reverse this or not... but it is a possible future, 15 to 20 years out, that we have to consider.
I don't disagree. Whatever the future holds, we will not be going back to "the Republic" we had even in the 1950s. The republic is long dead and gone. To think otherwise is misdirection so they continue to pay lip service to it. But it is a paper mache idol. In as much as governance in the US is now done almost exclusively through Executive Order, I think it is safe to say the USG is now an Imperial government such as was the case when Caesar crossed the Rubicon forever ending the Roman Republic and establishing imperial rule over the Roman Empire.
I feel confident that the USG under Trump is evolving into an authoritarian government much like the gov't in Russia. Under Woke Communism we would have a police state dictatorship and a war upon white, Christian Americans. And make no mistake, the Commies are not going away. They will look for a new opportunity to return to wreck havoc on our culture.
I am leaving tomorrow for France and Belgium. My husband is a veteran and we plan to visit both Normandy and Bastogne. We will look for Roland’s grave. God bless them all.
I had the ultimate privilege of visiting Normandy in 2007. While the battlefield is much changed from D-Day, the American cemetery, is truly almost reverential in it’s calm and peace, overlooking the English Channel, you can hear the ocean hitting the cliffs at one end. Something I will never forget.
LMWC, you’ve described the American Cemetery, Coleville-sur-Mer, perfectly. We were there in early October 2008 and were astounded at how beautifully it is maintained and how serene it was. The rows of cross and Stars of David gave a poignant reminder that indeed, “Freedom is not free.”
We also visited Normandy in 2007! Wonder if our paths crossed! 😄 I have told many people who have relatives buried there that there is no more beautiful and peaceful places for them to be.
Susan- I visited Normandy in fall 2015. When we arrived at the US cemetery my husband and I could not speak because we both had lumps in our throats and tears in our eyes. As another commenter stated it is truly a beautiful and peaceful place while at the same time sad beyond measure.
I didn’t ever have much interest in going to such a traumatic place, but my son loves History and wanted to go. It was honestly the most memorable, meaningful place I have ever visited. The people there are still very Thankful and kind to Americans. Enjoy your trip!
Trying not to strangle liberal relatives indeed. Thanks to all for their families' sacrifice. My grandfather and uncle, both West Point grads, were lucky enough to survive WW2 and Korea, with my uncle having served several tours in Viet Nam as well. Both were at "the point of the spear." My great grandfather, a chaplain in the Army, received the Distinguished Service Cross for running to the aid of the wounded during a battle in France that also involved mustard gas. He gave away his gas mask to a soldier. The things they all did are amazing. Could we do it again? I wonder.
Thank you. I forgot to mention my great great grandfather who fought for the Union Army during the Civil War. Fortunately he fathered 4 children before dying of a war injury, according to the old records I have seen. I have another ancestor, also a chaplain, who served during the Revolutionary War. He was actually written about in the New York Times years ago before it became birdcage liner. As a tiny female child, I gave myself the name "fighterhead." All those soldiers in my pedigree must have had an effect!
May we never forget the cost of freedom. And may we, who do not fight, never stop being the kind of people who are worth fighting for.” Sheer poetry! Thank you!
My uncle fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and survived. It earned him a Purple Heart (he lost his nose in a firefight), but beyond that, he never spoke of his experience.
God bless all those brave men and women who gave their lives so that we may have our freedoms.
Oh my goodness! I am crying! What a beautiful patriotic memorial you have written for today's post, Jeff! God bless you!
May hearts be moved to REMEMBER what we have set Memorial Day aside to honor - those whose very life was given for the freedoms we enjoy (often so lightly without a thought to the cost!)
This is the best post I have read in all five years of being subscribed! With much gratitude to your Grandfather and Michelle's for their service to our nation!
Jeff, as much as I love every edition of C&C, this was over the top. I did not know that Union soldiers and freed black men and their families honored these dead POWs Union soldiers in such a heartfelt way. That sadness of their deaths and the beauty shown by the ceremonies you described had me close to sobbing. I believe we call that love. This past weekend I was visiting the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, an exquisitely beautiful garden cemetery. I was reading the monument for a particular family. The head of household volunteered to fight in the Civil War. He died in October 1861. The monument next to him showed that his daughter was born November of 1861. I couldn’t stop thinking of that poor war widow with her baby daughter coming into the world while she was consumed with grief. So many young lives lost to war and so many devastated families. So, yes, let us never forget the cost of freedom and that we are cognizant of being the kind of people worth fighting for.
Thank you, Jeff, for recalling the eras when real heroes fought true evil - and triumphed.
I hope Jakeem Jeffries and his ilk read the story of that event in Charleston at the end of the War Between the States - noting who worked with whom to lay the fallen to honorable rest.
What a wonderful & uniting part of our post civil war history that we never hear about. Read “Killing Patton” by Bill O’Reilly for an account of the great warrior Patton & those that fought the Battle of the Bulge.
My husband’s great uncle lost his life in WWI at Meuse-Argonne and 6 years ago our/his whole family had the opportunity to visit his grave. It is a beautifully manicured cemetery and I learned so much in the visitor’s center waiting for the heavy rain to pass. The next day we visited the Normandy American Cemetery. Those were two very sobering days spent during our trip overseas. Never forget.
“They never asked for our thanks, but we offer them our undying gratitude and respect anyway.
May we never forget the cost of freedom. And may we, who do not fight, never stop being the kind of people who are worth fighting for.”
Made me tear up.
Thank you for the history lesson and remembrance.
Once again, Jeff has summed up our thoughts and feelings perfectly, and you reiterated them, also beautifully. Thank you all.
I never knew that freed slaves were the genesis of Decoration Day. But of course they were. Oppressed people are by and large, closer to God. And these freed slaves honoring Civil War dead were honoring their God who used these men to give them, and their generations after, liberty.
RIP. Memorial day should include the memory of all those casualties killed by the enemy fire: haccines! Enlisting shouldn't mean signing to become human guinea pigs! Syringe fodder!
Also, memorial day should emphasize the remembrance of all those murdered by false flags (manufactured crisis for enriching bankers and the Military Industrial Complex):
- Pearl Harbor
- Gulf of Tonkin
- 9/11
- COVID
- George Floyd
- NATO/Ukraine
- 10/7
etc.
There’s only one way to honor fallen heroes’ sacrifice: expose the truth so that there are no more deaths and they didn't die in vain!
It's not just corruption of the top military ranks, politicians and media, it's the clockwork coordination which should raise your DEFCON to 1!
We've got a very small window of opportunity to fight or ... die (they want to murder 95% of us).
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You can add to your list:
USS Maine, 1898, Havana Harbor
Lusitania, 1915 (US civilians), St. George Channel
Add WWI, WWII, Vietnam and both Iraq wars... all started by False Flags
Sorry, but that is just revisionist history peddled by a anti-white radical liberal named David Bight in his book "Race and Reunion"... he also wrote other anti-white, pro-black revisionist tropes like "Fredrick Douglas, Prophet of Freedom", and "American Oracle: The Civil war in the civil rights era".
Early DEI lies.
The local South Carolina newspaper records freed slaves as helping to exhume Union soldier bodies from mass grave and proper individual burials and decorating those graves. They freed Blacks built a protective fence around the graves with sign over that said ‘Martyrs of the Race Track’ (mass grave was at race track). Making the White and Black people who did this, as forerunners to Decorations Day. That was later renamed Memorial Day. You can call this revisionist history if you’d like. I view it as history not widely shared because it did not fit narrative of Reconstruction and Jim Crow of the time. If I was a defeated Confederate citizen I wouldn’t like it either, hence the fence. But 152 years later, this piece of history UNITES White and Blacks. DEI does the opposite. It takes wisdom to discern between the two in today’s polarized world? MAGA.
https://today.cofc.edu/2017/05/29/memorial-day-history/
Nice try... this load of BS came from the same source... Blight's books.
He had an obvious agenda and that was not TRUTH, just DEI.
Certainly freed slaves could have been the laborers in exhuming bodies, but joining with white soldiers in a Kumbaya celebration of harmony and equality is laughable.
Read a few of Blights books before continuing to spout your drivel.
Manners please
You have become boring.
Decoration Day was a tradition prior to the Civil War, largely practiced in Appalachia/South, and most common in two states which didn't join the Confederacy, Kentucky and West Virginia. Lying about history doesn't unite anyone, and the lead revisionists on Civil War/Reconstruction history are almost always openly or closeted Marxists. Their goal is to divide, not unite. There are way more sources than this, but the notion that a group of freed slaves just spontaneously invented this tradition is ludicrous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoration_Day_(tradition)
You are correct. The decoration of gravesites is a long-held Southern/Appalachian tradition. Growing up, Decoration was always on Mother's Day. We decorated the gravesites of our passed family members. Prior to the Civil War, there wouldn't have been any military/veterans cemeteries. The National Cemetery Administration credits a women's organization from Columbus, GA with the origination of Memorial Day, which was originally known as Decoration Day. The other places a day of gravesite Decoration is common is in certain parts of Great Britain and Liberia. I have no doubt that freed slaves in Charleston honored fallen soldiers by decorating their graves, but they didn't invent the practice. It's a practice they learned from their former owners.
Just part of the massive attempts to promote negroes.
I'm not sure what the agenda is... probably something to do with breaking down American society. Race-mixing, porn galore, massive political corruption, promotion of pedophilia and sexualization of youth, financial disaster looming... all related?
I've lived in the South for my entire life, and I don't know a single person who uses that language - "negroes" and "race-mixing". It's revolting.
With that said, there has been a multidecade long struggle session between the Republican Party and Southern historical traditions and emblems. The GOP is happy to have our votes, but many of them are repulsed by our history, traditions, and culture. The Straussians (neoconservatives) don't like Southern conservatism, so they demonize Southern culture/traditions/heroes. The most recognizable example is a series of dumb videos produced by Prager U. The only prominent Republican in my lifetime who attempted to defend them was Trump when he spoke after the Charlottesville hit-and-run incident. I can only imagine that Jeff Childers was scrolling through his facebook or twitter feed and saw some Prager U, Victor Davis Hansen, or other similar account post a video or article about "the true story about where Memorial Day originated". I'm just explaining why Jeff would share woke garbage history - he did it because Prager U it. And the GOP pushes it because they want black votes. So you can expect more of it until the Democrats start trying to cancel Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in earnest.
I loved that last part too. It can’t be repeated enough: “And may we, who do not fight, never stop being the kind of people who are worth fighting for.”
In another battle long ago, there was a Man who sacrificed everything for people who He knew weren't worth dying for but His love compelled Him to do so. Romans 5:8 puts it this way: "But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." How humbling it is to think of God's great love for us and how grateful I am that there have been men and women who laid down their lives so that I could write this today without fear of retaliation from godless tyrants.
If you sacrifice your life for tyrants, you enable tyranny. If you sacrifice your life serving the light, you are serving God. What benighted mind to sacrifice your life for tyrant Man instead of God. You are serving the dark forces not God
"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends." John 15:13
Don't sacrifice your life for military industrial complex
Yes about 77 million of us worth fighting for.
I’m in tears too by that sentence….
me three. Actually the whole thing.
Me too
Same here. To think that since the Civil War, other than the attack on Pearl Harbor, we’ve not had war in our land—such an amazing blessing. Unfortunately, we’ve become so soft and ungrateful as a result. Our grandfathers and fathers were made of a different kind of metal, for sure. That prayer of General Patton’s was surely the key to that costly victory . Many thanks to our military folks now serving. May God bless and keep you and your families. And may we elect strong, wise leaders who understand that war takes our best and brightest.
we have war at home. just an undeclared one with our own intelligence services working under the direction of Soros and the Globalists as a fifth column to destroy our way of life. Manchurian candidates, mind control, directed mass shootings, destroying our economy, our health, spreading terror and mayhem. It's a war against the guerrilla warriors funded by outside forces to destroy the US.
EVERY person who dies because of the Vs and the Mandates, and every person who lost a job or a child or relative is a casualty of this war.
Same with the BS war in Ukraine.
We need to fight the evil in this world with the truth. The enemy uses lies. The truth of God is our weapon and we need to use it often.
Liz, you are so right. War has many faces.
Never forget 9/11 was an attack on the US by an enemy of Freedom. Radical Islam is a threat to the entire world.
Me too
You are not alone! Beautiful prose, wasn't it?
Same 🥲
ditto
Yes, may we ever be the kind of people worth fighting for.....but also came to my mind that God sought us and Christ died for us while we when we were not worth dieing for.
Amen
Jesus didnt preach unworthiness. we are not UNWORTHY.
But didn't God design us?
No responsibility there?
Let me guess.. "Free Will"... ;-)
Indeed those are valid questions, and that is probably because of the confusion that he first imparted the Ten Commandments of a working society that could live in peace and prosper. But the free will to chose or not to chose, to decide or not to decide, to believe or not to believe always is left to individual choices. It is the collectivist that blackmail/extort the rights of others to chose for themselves what is not necessarily in their best interest. False flag accusations as the "justified" euphemisms of designing an artful men and women to gain an unjust advantage over and above their neighbors to extend unwarranted claims of "jurisdiction" over them. Even when these frauds and swindles are openly exposed, as the scripture teaches me "The wicked do not know shame" is reflected by the apathy and insouciance of the general population. We cannot follow 10 simple rules but we are somehow expected to follow millions of arbitrary opinions and scribbling s that political zeitgeist dub as "Law". Go figure.
Clyde, But, thanks be to God, no problem now. We are saved from our sins.
Me too. Still crying. My Dad was Army during WWII. Mostly in Europe (France, then Germany), then a bit in the Philippines. He absolutely never talked about it. The only snippet I have is that he received a 10% disability, for all the broken bones he had in his feet, from jumping from poles, trees and roofs while stringing wire. He was a prime sniper target, and frequently bailed quickly.
There is a great 4-part Netflix on the life of Captain Felix Sparks, one of the amazing unknown heroes of World War 2. "The Liberator". I highly recommend this series; once you get past the animation, it is totally engrossing.
Felix Sparks led battalions in the Battle of the Bulge and survived. He is buried in Lakewood CO; the post office in Lakewood is named in his honor. Here is a short bio: https://news.va.gov/83607/felix-sparks-liberator/
You beat me to that re-quote.
Thank you Sunnydaze and Mr. Childers.
Same
STFU, please.
Your writing ability is truly impressive, Jeff. Thank you for this personal and beautiful reminder of what this day means.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13) Thank you for sharing these stories of your family, and of the history of Memorial Day. Never stop sharing, never stop reminding.
No greater love than this………….
John 15 is today’s New Testament reading in my One Year Bible! How appropriate.
Yes, I saw that in mine after I posted this! It's as if God KNEW! ;)
Those who trust in the LORD
Are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.
As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
So the LORD surrounds His people
From this time forth and forever.
For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land of the righteous,
So that the righteous will not put forth their hands to do wrong.
Do good, O LORD, to those who are good
And to those who are upright in their hearts.
— Psalm 125:1-4 NAS
Hey friends, many of you have probably read this, but I removed the paywall in case you’d like to read it again. “Look Upon the Flag” —
https://open.substack.com/pub/wordsbeyondme/p/look-upon-the-flag-2ec?r=15f8sw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
We had a tree taken down and decided to put up a flag pole in time for Memorial Day. Mother Nature hasn't cooperated and has sent rain every day for days on end. Finally got the concrete poured yesterday and we STiLL had to cover it because- surprise!- it rained again. Hopefully it can go up today.
Maybe it’s a reminder sent by our fallen to persevere like they did.
@Stacy- Bill (husband) is (almost) 69 with a heart problem (thanks, Fauci!) and still works 4 days/week building engines even though he's retired, maintains the house and yard, and never gives up. He would have made an incredible soldier.
I think that a soldier is at the heart of all good boys and men.
@Stacy- he wanted to join the Army but he had (has) bad knees- Osgood/Schlatter's Disease.
Words to ponder, keep close to heart and never forget.
Beautiful, Janice P. Thank you.
https://wordsbeyondme.substack.com/p/look-upon-the-flag-2ec
Thank you, Janice.
What a perfect prayer for today.
I can remember having a tooth abscess while at my grandfathers in Cape Canaveral as a kid, my entire face swollen, the pain was excruciating....my Pop Pop soothed me, told me to scream, that no one remembered fully what it felt like to feel pain in the moment and that there was no honor in keeping quiet.....no doubt a learned battlefield gesture to the wounded. I honor both my grandfathers today, Army vs Navy, Colonel vs Captain. Bulge vs Pacific. Thank you for giving all you had for future generations. I hope we can remember what made you the Greatest Generation and employ that same perspective in these times. Focus on the future and the youth. Honor the idea and convictions of the Greatest Generation..... that we might feel pain in our times so their future burden might be lighter, its the American way.
God Bless and Keep the United States of America and God and Bless and Keep our Military and God Bless and Keep President Trump.
More than once, President Trump nearly had to lay down his life in his attempt to oppose the forces of chaos and war overtaking America and the world in our day. As POTUS, he cannot make up for all the past sins of our nation over the last many decades or even all of the ones which are still fresh on our minds. He has accomplished much so far with hopefully much more to come but he needs the support of a repentant people who will confess the sins of the nation before God and beseech the Lord in common prayer to forgive our sins and send His Spirit to renew the soul of America to serve God and His Righteousness. Then may God in His Providence continue to protect Trump with a divine hedge and guide his efforts to bring peace to the world and to America. If we confess our sins on this Memorial Day and repentant of the past bloodshed, the Lord will hear us and strengthen us in the coming battle.
We must not be discouraged or dissuaded from this national effort which requires all our support. So consider these words posted by our brother Dave this Thursday past: "The United States coming clean respective its dark darker history of the past several decades is not going to get headline priority status because the immediate peril is the country on the brink going down the drain in a leveling devastating financial ruin. Therefore, the best we can realistically expect from the government and any administration trying to save the country is partial remedy, not out right confession and cleansing. Yeah! This is a bitter pill for me. But realistically saving the country from going down the tubes is going to be the focus, not the confession booth.
"Still, all this said, its the job of the American people to always shout the truth in a way which cannot be ignored. It is a moral duty to do so. Otherwise bad things happen again and again."
Confession and repentance is the job of the church, not the government, though godly leadership is always to be desired. “If My people…”
You raise a most important point. The churches of America should be leading the way but the church as a whole has abdicated her prophetic role of applying God's Word to the culture and society. The American churches are in need of revival and reformation.
"...My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children."
Hosea 4:6
Our church is going through the minor prophets now. I love Hosea. Our God is amazing in His love for us!
Our government has a considerable about of truth telling that needs to come out. Excusing the lies, deception, and cover ups just means business as usual and enough is enough.
We ALL need to repent for our sins as well as our ancestors sins.
Unfortunately, our repentance for their sin won’t do them any good.
Do you think Christians comprise at least 15% of the American population?......................................................
How Empires And Nations Divide
Armstrong
....separations and revolutions have ALWAYS taken place with the minority and not the majority. The average number of what percent of the population is required to pull off a separation or revolution is LESS THAN 15%!!!!!
Pulling together this research blew my mind. This goes against what most would expect. It also shows how this process has unfolded; not all are violent...
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/how-alberta-can-actually-separate-from-canada/
Or South Africa, thinking of the Lara Logan interview with Alex Jones?
I told my sons the war on the Africaner is little different than war on Whites in America under Marxist Woke rule. And in regard to this and America, the Marxist would love to slaughter us like they do Boer Farmers in South Africa. The only thing holding them back are numbers. There are just too many Whites in America at seventy percent of the population. And therefor they have to be much more devious and longer term minded on how American Whites are to be liquidated. Make no mistake! This is the goal of the Marxists that want to destroy this country and they have made a good start. I don't know if the Trump regime will reverse this or not... but it is a possible future, 15 to 20 years out, that we have to consider.
I don't disagree. Whatever the future holds, we will not be going back to "the Republic" we had even in the 1950s. The republic is long dead and gone. To think otherwise is misdirection so they continue to pay lip service to it. But it is a paper mache idol. In as much as governance in the US is now done almost exclusively through Executive Order, I think it is safe to say the USG is now an Imperial government such as was the case when Caesar crossed the Rubicon forever ending the Roman Republic and establishing imperial rule over the Roman Empire.
I feel confident that the USG under Trump is evolving into an authoritarian government much like the gov't in Russia. Under Woke Communism we would have a police state dictatorship and a war upon white, Christian Americans. And make no mistake, the Commies are not going away. They will look for a new opportunity to return to wreck havoc on our culture.
I am leaving tomorrow for France and Belgium. My husband is a veteran and we plan to visit both Normandy and Bastogne. We will look for Roland’s grave. God bless them all.
I had the ultimate privilege of visiting Normandy in 2007. While the battlefield is much changed from D-Day, the American cemetery, is truly almost reverential in it’s calm and peace, overlooking the English Channel, you can hear the ocean hitting the cliffs at one end. Something I will never forget.
LMWC, you’ve described the American Cemetery, Coleville-sur-Mer, perfectly. We were there in early October 2008 and were astounded at how beautifully it is maintained and how serene it was. The rows of cross and Stars of David gave a poignant reminder that indeed, “Freedom is not free.”
We also visited Normandy in 2007! Wonder if our paths crossed! 😄 I have told many people who have relatives buried there that there is no more beautiful and peaceful places for them to be.
Susan- I visited Normandy in fall 2015. When we arrived at the US cemetery my husband and I could not speak because we both had lumps in our throats and tears in our eyes. As another commenter stated it is truly a beautiful and peaceful place while at the same time sad beyond measure.
Some were returned home. Roland apparently was https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110158745/roland_charles-keiser.
You can leave a flower.
He looked like such a joyful fellow. No wonder his widow (only 21 with 2 babies to raise alone) never got over the loss.
Thank you! It's a sweet thing to have this memorial to go with Jeff's story.
I didn't know about this website.
I've found a couple of my own family members markers there now.
Thank you for that, too, Marilynne Martin.
You're welcome. In addition, if your loved ones are veterans they may have a page at this VA cemetery site too.
My dad's - https://www.vlm.cem.va.gov/STEPHENLAWRENCEMARTIN/F6DC4F1
Safe travels!
Don't forget to pack tissues, I highly suspect you will need them.
I didn’t ever have much interest in going to such a traumatic place, but my son loves History and wanted to go. It was honestly the most memorable, meaningful place I have ever visited. The people there are still very Thankful and kind to Americans. Enjoy your trip!
Trying not to strangle liberal relatives indeed. Thanks to all for their families' sacrifice. My grandfather and uncle, both West Point grads, were lucky enough to survive WW2 and Korea, with my uncle having served several tours in Viet Nam as well. Both were at "the point of the spear." My great grandfather, a chaplain in the Army, received the Distinguished Service Cross for running to the aid of the wounded during a battle in France that also involved mustard gas. He gave away his gas mask to a soldier. The things they all did are amazing. Could we do it again? I wonder.
What a legacy!
Thank you. I forgot to mention my great great grandfather who fought for the Union Army during the Civil War. Fortunately he fathered 4 children before dying of a war injury, according to the old records I have seen. I have another ancestor, also a chaplain, who served during the Revolutionary War. He was actually written about in the New York Times years ago before it became birdcage liner. As a tiny female child, I gave myself the name "fighterhead." All those soldiers in my pedigree must have had an effect!
May we never forget the cost of freedom. And may we, who do not fight, never stop being the kind of people who are worth fighting for.” Sheer poetry! Thank you!
My uncle fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and survived. It earned him a Purple Heart (he lost his nose in a firefight), but beyond that, he never spoke of his experience.
God bless all those brave men and women who gave their lives so that we may have our freedoms.
Oh my goodness! I am crying! What a beautiful patriotic memorial you have written for today's post, Jeff! God bless you!
May hearts be moved to REMEMBER what we have set Memorial Day aside to honor - those whose very life was given for the freedoms we enjoy (often so lightly without a thought to the cost!)
This is the best post I have read in all five years of being subscribed! With much gratitude to your Grandfather and Michelle's for their service to our nation!
Oh goodness! First Jeff’s post and now all of the comments. I’m a mess for this day!
Thank you for keeping us focused on the reason for this day.
Jeff, as much as I love every edition of C&C, this was over the top. I did not know that Union soldiers and freed black men and their families honored these dead POWs Union soldiers in such a heartfelt way. That sadness of their deaths and the beauty shown by the ceremonies you described had me close to sobbing. I believe we call that love. This past weekend I was visiting the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, an exquisitely beautiful garden cemetery. I was reading the monument for a particular family. The head of household volunteered to fight in the Civil War. He died in October 1861. The monument next to him showed that his daughter was born November of 1861. I couldn’t stop thinking of that poor war widow with her baby daughter coming into the world while she was consumed with grief. So many young lives lost to war and so many devastated families. So, yes, let us never forget the cost of freedom and that we are cognizant of being the kind of people worth fighting for.
What a deeply moving column. Thank you and much gratitude to all these soldiers. My father survived the Normandy Invasion.
Thank you, Jeff, for recalling the eras when real heroes fought true evil - and triumphed.
I hope Jakeem Jeffries and his ilk read the story of that event in Charleston at the end of the War Between the States - noting who worked with whom to lay the fallen to honorable rest.
What a wonderful & uniting part of our post civil war history that we never hear about. Read “Killing Patton” by Bill O’Reilly for an account of the great warrior Patton & those that fought the Battle of the Bulge.
My husband’s great uncle lost his life in WWI at Meuse-Argonne and 6 years ago our/his whole family had the opportunity to visit his grave. It is a beautifully manicured cemetery and I learned so much in the visitor’s center waiting for the heavy rain to pass. The next day we visited the Normandy American Cemetery. Those were two very sobering days spent during our trip overseas. Never forget.