#MemorialDay
1:13 PM · May 29, 2017
BUT here i am on #MemorialDay with The Devil's Haircut in my mind & in disbelief as i say this: REPUBLICANS
& THE @GOP
TRULY HATE
AMERICA
1:16 PM · May 29, 2017
let this sink in for a moment, because this isn't a comment about intentions but actual actions:
REPUBLICANS
AND THE @GOP
HATE
AMERICA
1:28 PM · May 29, 2017
REPUBLICANS
TRULY HATE
AMERICA
if Obama was the perfect POTUS, then they are willing to destroy the Empire for him to never happen again
#Xitterdiving
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#Lifestyle #Shopping #Beauty #BlackFriday #LaborDay #Memorialday #Shopping
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#Variety #News #MemorialDay
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#SleepWeek #MemorialDay #Mattresses #Lifestyle #ProductRecommendations #Culture
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#Lifestyle #Shopping #4thofjulysales #BlackFriday #LaborDay #Memorialday #Shopping #Travel
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Does #MarlieceAndrada know how to approach without being super seductive?
Season 8 Episode 4 "Memorial Day"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #MemorialDay #BaywatchBabes #BaywatchBoobs #MelonPower #Jugs #seduction #KellyPackard
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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
— Bob Riley
#quote #memorialday
Relaxing and waiting on this week’s #win. 💪✈️
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#OOSGroup #S61C #ATiMS #aviation #aviationbusiness #economy #memorialday
Red eye on a #Wednesday? 💪✈️
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#OOSGroup #S61C #ATiMS #aviation #aviationbusiness #economy #memorialday
We’re out y’all! ✌️✈️
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Mayor Ashcraft shares remarks from her address at the recent Memorial Day commemoration and encourages Alamedans to visit the 'Overflowing With Hope' exhibit at the Main Library about Alameda's Japanese community and their forced internment during World War II. Photo Maurice Ramirez.
https://alamedapost.com/op-ed/mayor-ashcraft-time-to-remember/
#alameda #holiday #japantown #MemorialDay #AlamedaPoint #CorsairFlats #AlamedaFreeLibrary #OverflowingWithHope #VeteransMemorialPark #AlamedaNavalAirStation #AlamedaMayorMarilynEzzyAshcraft
Cloud surfing to the #Win 🤩✈️
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#OOSGroup #S61C #ATiMS #aviation #aviationbusiness #economy #memorialday
The only veteran in my family from the past century: My grandmother’s cousin’s late husband. “Uncle” Robert Castillo was a USMC translator during the Cold War era. He later worked for city hall along side his wife, who he was married to for over 50yrs. He passed suddenly in 2021.
#MusComEnt #MemorialDay
Dear friends,
Our local #MemorialDay #parade was a quick affair. It was mostly #FireDepartment vehicles, a few school #MarchingBands and #ColorGuards. A couple of Cub Scout troops came through (the younger boys and don't recall older Boy Scouts or any Girl Scouts) and, surprisingly, very few #veterans, maybe ten or 15 marching at the head of the parade. Some may have been in cars but not easily seen.
ESM
The first poppy of the season is a bit late for #MemorialDay , but it’s a beauty!
#Bloomscrolling
As a Canadian I like to take the time on US Memorial Day to remember at the end of World War II, the USA was the only nuclear power on Earth. It had troops in every major country on Earth. Its economy was strong while the rest of the world was bankrupt from 5+ years of war. The USA had the world in its hand. It only had to squeeze its fist. But it did something remarkable, something no conqueror has done in history. The USA gave the world back to itself. It left food and dollars and helped guide destroyed nations back.
The USA then, as now, wasn't perfect. But I doubt should Russia or China or one of the Axis powers have been in the USA's position, it would have been as fair and magnanimous. Well done, America. Thank you for that humanity.
It's also tragic maybe the American political establishment has lost that sense of equanimity over the decades. You can get it back.
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#MemorialDay
#AskACanadian
Today in Labor History May 31, 1927: Fred Trump, father Donald Trump, was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens, New York. The Long Island Daily Press reported that all the arrestees, including Trump, were wearing Klan robes. During his presidential campaign, Journalists asked Donald Trump about his father's arrest. He claimed "it never happened."
Today in Labor History May 31, 1927: Fred Trump, father Donald Trump, was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens, New York. The Long Island Daily Press reported that all the arrestees, including Trump, were wearing Klan robes. During his presidential campaign, Journalists asked Donald Trump about his father's arrest. He claimed "it never happened."
“𝘈𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵” – 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘯
Today is the last chance to get a discounted ticket for #ZER0GRAVITY in our Memorial Day Sale! Get your 4-day training for only $4000, or a 2-day training for only $2000!
Howdy! It’s #Wednesday already. #Win 🐪✈️
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#OOSGroup #S61C #ATiMS #aviation #aviationbusiness #economy #memorialday
I have three vehicles, each with a couple Gold Star Family license plates on them for my boy, Ryan, who would be 37 this 1 June had he not been KIA in Iraq. This plate is on the front of my ‘93 Ford F-150 XLT.
#MemorialDay
#RememberThem
Memorial Day gone wrong
Death and injuries abound
Gun violence persists
Honor to brave soldiers
Bravery and cherished memories
Future of nations shine
Today in Labor History May 30, 1937: “Memorial Day massacre:” Police attacked striking steelworkers, shooting many in the back, killing 10 and wounding 100, at the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago. 1937 – In what became known as the Memorial Day Massacre, police open fire on striking steelworkers at Republic Steel in South Chicago, killing 10 and wounding more than 160. The press called it the “Red Massacre,” as if to justify police violence and murder of working class people.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #MemorialDay #massacre #strike #union #PoliceBrutality #PoliceMurder #police #acab #chicago #steel
Today, May 30, 1962, Don and Peggy Draper spend Memorial Day at the country club. Don struggles with how he is perceived (Mad Men, s02e06, "Maidenform", 2008)
day 515
in clouded night
the fogged streetlamp
of the moon
Daily haiku by Freeman Ng, the author of BASHO'S HAIKU JOURNEYS, a haiku picture book.
On Memorial Day, 5-time draft-dodger, who asked at the graves of fallen Americans at Arlington Cemetery "what was in it for them?" & who refused to visit a cemetery for WWI veterans, calling them "losers", national disgrace & bastard of democracy Trump has the f**king nerve to compare himself to fallen soldiers.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/29/2172080/-Trump-makes-Memorial-Day-all-about-himself-again
#RuleOfLaw #MemorialDay #IndictTrump #NationalDisgrace #NationalSecurityThreat #Insurrection #Jan6 Espionage #Treason #Theft #Corruption #AbuseOfPower #ObstructionOfJustice #ElectoralFraud #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #DisqualifyTrump #18USCSection2383 #14thAmendmentSection3
#GunViolence is up 33% on @JoeBiden’s watch. Another 16 Americans shot dead over #MemorialDay weekend.
And still no declaration of a #NationalEmergency, which would give @POTUS sweeping authority to enact #GunControl by #ExecutiveOrder.
Worried about #SCOTUS? Fuck them.
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I will never not find Volkswagen #MemorialDay sales hilarious and tragic
We remember and honor our heroes.
#GAC
#georgearzt
#MemorialDay
#MemorialDay2023
#RememberAndHonor
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May 30th: The predecessor of the #MemorialDay, then called #DecorationDay, is observed in the #UnitedStates for the first time. It is established with a proclamation by John A. Logan, the head of veterans group, the Grand Army of the Republic.
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U.S. President Joe Biden marked the country’s Memorial Day on Monday, saying that Americans “must never forget the price” paid by military service members who were killed fighting battles abroad.
“They laid down their lives to protect the idea of the United States of America, that people can live in a free democracy,” Biden said at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington....
https://alaska-native-news.com/68101-2/68101/
#biden #cemetary #memorialday #tomb #wreath
Even if you're stuck in a right wing bubble, #MemorialDay makes your voting choice too fucking easy:
#Biden #Trump
#MemorialDay is HUGE in USofA, really huge.
Thing I don't get is how you can have a special day to celebrate vets and in the same time accept that 100 of thousands of these "heroes" peddle in the street, homeless, foodless and most of the time sick with ptsd.
Schizophrenic, ain't it ?
With #MemorialDay behind us, I suddenly remembered last night:
...didn't #JimmyCarter go into "hospice" earlier this year, eschewing further medical care, to die at home with his family?
He's still with us (blessedly.) The man is indomitable.
#HeatherCoxRichardson 's
*Letters from an American*
(05/29/23)
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#USPolitics #Politics #WWII #Fascism #MemorialDay #History #Histodons
They come out of the sad, very sad end of #MemorialDay programming with Rockin' Heaven Down by Heart.
Last 3 songs for #MemorialDay about to play on SiriusXM.
#Journal, Day 1166
Monday, 29 May 2023
(Day 28 of #WGAstrike)
This Monday evening has big Sunday night energy.
#MemorialDay #ThreeDayWeekend #Mondays
For #MemorialDay I created a private #AI #UlyssesSGrant at #CharacterAI. I realized he has some biases in favor of General Sherman, his wartime BFF. #CivilWar
New DR4X changelog! Tycoon. DR4X Changelog #72 05/29/2023
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1704830/view/3709322795951528596?l=english
#indiegames #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev #gaming #gamedevelopment #indiegame #lowPoly #retro #madewithunity #RETROGAMING #dr4x #MemorialDay #strategygame #strategy #indie
I hope everyone had a meaningful #MemorialDay and a relaxing weekend.
This is part of what I did.
#NowWatching I Wanted Wings (1941) in honor of #MemorialDay.
Ray Milland, William Holden and Wayne Morris are Army Air Corps recruits, each from different backgrounds and heading in different directions.
Looks like Veronica Lake actually got 6th billing but you’d never know that from the film poster!
Memorial Day dinner.
I have a Beyond Burger, with sausage, and some spicy air fried fries, all in a new bowl I got on clearance. It was tasty.
I don't eat Beyond products much, but they're a nice meatless treat for me to have. I'm immensely glad it exists.
Excellent choice. I miss Runza. #nebraska
Thanks you Mr. Zieg for your service. 🇺🇸 #MemorialDay https://journalstar.com/news/local/lincoln-wwii-veteran-plans-to-celebrate-100th-birthday-with-a-runza-hamburger/article_ce8fe4cc-fbd2-11ed-ae68-6b0dfe5e7fb3.html
Today, we pause to remember all the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice to this great nation in defense of our freedoms and uplift all those they left behind who love and supported them. Thank you for your service. #MemorialDay
Family + sun + water + sailboat make for a perfect afternoon.
#memorialday #sailing #sailboat #holiday
Remember that we are complex beings. We are capable of being critical of certain aspects of the government while still fully supporting other aspects.
Today we remember the fallen who have given their lives to secure the freedoms so many of us take for granted. 🇺🇲
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #DeppGPT
9: #mondog
8: #kosovo
7: #feather
6: #silentsunday
5: #Photomonday
4: #Fotomontag
3: #succession
2: #memorialday
1: #picnicasongbookormovie
About my brother. 🧵 #memorialday
Major Joseph L. Warner passed away Sunday, December 14, 2014, after a brief illness. He was born August 7, 1975 to Richard and Joyce Warner of Rigby, ID.
Join me this week for a #MusComEnt belated #MemorialDay salute with “I Was a Male War Bride” (1949) Wednesday @ 6pm EST/5pm CST. Available for free here (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTfsVIkhV9F3Tnjq5UJ3AuW-7)
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#Grilling and having a #beer - that's how Memorial Day is supposed to end. My heart goes out to all who've lost a loved one who was a veteran. While a number of my family served, including my dad, I was spared the tragedy of the ultimate sacrifice. #MemorialDay
Thank you to all those who "gave the last full measure of devotion." #MemorialDay https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
@georgetakei And a President, who's not asking
"What was in it for them?", standing at the graves of those, who died in service of their fellow-humans & their country.
Memorial Day remembers and honors American military personnel who died in service of our country.
For the past few years, one of our nearby businesses commemorates the day with a flag display in front of their building.
5-29-23 Nicole Sandler’s Special Memorial Day Music Show
https://nicolesandler.com/5-29-23/
#NicolesBlog #MemorialDay #music
One of two pots planted. #memorialday Flowers always seem to say, with a heavy sigh... "thank you" once replanted.
Our visit to Fort Ticonderoga gave me lots to contemplate on the centuries of hardship and sacrifice by soldiers and their families. My gratitude to those who serve to protect freedom and human rights throughout the world. #MemorialDay
Image: US flag on Mt. Defiance in Ticonderoga, NY. Lake Champlain and Vermont in background.
May 30, 1918, Anchorage residents march in parade to cemetery for Decoration Day, an older name for Memorial Day. The 1968 Uniform Monday Holiday Act moved Memorial Day observation from May 30 to last Monday of May effective 1971. Via Anchorage Museum. #alaskahistory #anchoragehistory #MemorialDay #Alaska
This is my Grand-uncle Ken Lampton. He was killed during the Battle of the Bulge in #WWII. There are a few tidbits about him in “Company Commander” by Charles B. MacDonald.
“Private First Class Kenneth Lampton, of Detroit, Mich., weapons-platoon runner who was also eighteen and corresponded with college girls from Michigan.”
"Though more than one million Black Americans served in WWII, their military uniforms couldn't protect them from systematic racism. Military segregation was maintained throughout the war, which meant separate barracks and recreation facilities, both at home and abroad."
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/07/1134756262/-american-matthew-delmont-black-wwii
“There is nothing that you would call romantic about war. I think that we are diminished by war. Our character as a race is somehow reduced by each war that we allow to happen. Hitler had to be destroyed, there was no choice and I was glad to do my duty, but if there were another way to bring him down I would have preferred it.” - Jack Kirby, Private First Class, U.S. Army Scout 1943-1945
#MemorialDay #JackKirby #JoeSimon #ComicBooks #Comics @comics
This morning as I walked the dog, I smelled the familiar aroma of barbecue on the grill. Today (in the U.S.A.) people "celebrate" Memorial Day by gathering to grill meat, drink beer, and soak up the warmth of the start of summer. But among all the flags carefully planted along curbs in front of carefully manicured lawns, all I could think of was the pain, the screams, the dying of young people in combat—only their memory remains.
I feel seen by Dan Rather: https://bit.ly/43drDtJ
A new collection highlights the anti-Vietnam War writings of historian Staughton Lynd, who was essentially blacklisted for his peace activism.
#MemorialDay #Vietnam #War @erikgunn
https://progressive.org/magazine/book-review-confronting-the-grim-truths-of-war-gunn/
Veterans Memorial Park Wichita, KS. Never forget. Canon AE-1. FD f/1.4 50mm lens. Kodak BW400CN 35mm film. #MemorialDay #believeinfilm #photography
All gave some, some gave all. Remember them this Memorial Day. Shiloh National Military Park
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For many Americans, Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer. But what is this somber holiday really about?
USA Today has an explainer: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/26/memorial-day-meaning-why-celebrate/70243835007/
That the true origins of Memorial Day is not well remembered is not a surprise. From the start, Black Americans’ contributions to society have often been overlooked, minimized, or reappropriated. This resistance continues to this day,. For a wonderful overview of this topic, see David Blight’s book, Race and Reunion.
Resources;
http://www.davidwblight.com/public-history/2015/4/27/the-first-decoration-day-newark-star-ledger
https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston
https://time.com/5836444/black-memorial-day/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/05/26/contested-confederate-roots-memorial-day/
https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2023/05/25/freed-slaves-started-first-memorial-day-in-the-us/
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Happy #MemorialDay to all the military families.
For me, Memorial Day has always been about honoring the dead. From my childhood, I’ve always associated this day with peonies, paper poppies, trips to cemeteries and patriotism. I grew up in a bubble, but I didn’t know how much of a bubble it was until I got older.
A Memorial Day message tucked into a tale of my childhood: Some things are worth fighting for:
https://mollycantrellkraig.co/some-things-are-worth-fighting-for/
#MemorialDay #Blog #Blogger #writer #patriotism #childhood #storytelling #writing
By focusing on Confederate contributions, The United Daughters of the Confederacy obscured and downplayed the role of African-Americans in establishing Decoration Day, which later evolved into Memorial Day. This intentional distortion of history aimed to reinforce the Confederate narrative and marginalize the African-American contributions to American history and remembrance.
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#BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #MemorialDay
The United Daughters of the Confederacy played a significant role in minimizing the African-American founding of Memorial Day. As an organization that aimed to promote the Confederate cause and maintain the Lost Cause narrative, they sought to reshape the memory of the Civil War. They propagated the idea that Memorial Day originated solely from Confederate women's efforts, particularly in the South, to honor their fallen soldiers.
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The observance of Decoration Day paved the way for the establishment of Memorial Day as a national holiday, honoring the fallen soldiers of all wars. It serves as a testament to the contributions and resilience of Black-Americans in shaping the traditions and narratives of American history.
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#BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #MemorialDay
Decoration Day, now known as Memorial Day, has roots in a tradition established by Black-Americans in the aftermath of the Civil War. On May 1, 1865, the formerly enslaved, with profound gratitude for Union soldiers who fought and died for their emancipation, began commemorating that sacrifice by decorating Union graves. This remembrance and gratitude eventually gained support from communities across America.
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Navajo Code Talker Memorial
Window Rock, Arizona
Today is Memorial Day in the United States encouraging us to remember the sacrifices of those who fell in service to the country.
Vital to the war effort in the Pacific were Diné who spoke in their native tongue so the Japanese could not understand the transmissions. Many from other native tribes were also recruited to this effort.
"All the services, like the army, and divisions and companies, and battalions, regiments . . . we just gave them clan names. Airplanes, we named after birds . . . like the buzzard is bomber, and the hawk is a dive bomber, and the patrol plane is a crow, and the hummingbird is the fighter."
William McCabe, (Diné [Navajo]) United States Marine Corps
from: https://americanindian.si.edu/static/why-we-serve/topics/code-talkers/
The Overlooked Black History of #MemorialDay
A Black Civil War soldier's unmarked grave Up North finally gets a headstone.
For years, the residents of a tiny U.P. town laid flowers and flags on an unmarked grave in their cemetery. One man was determined to find out who was buried there.
#News #History #CivilWar #BlackMastodon #MemorialDay
https://www.freep.com/in-depth/news/columnists/john-carlisle/2023/05/28/hiram-white-black-soldier-civil-war-upper-peninsula-michigan-grave/70212466007/
Memorial Day was born out of generous gestures after the Civil War: Southerners decorated graves of Confederate soldiers as well as those of former Union enemies.
#history #MemorialDay
https://theconversation.com/the-forgotten-history-of-memorial-day-97199
Thanks to those who gave their lives for our country. May we honor their sacrifice by making our world more just, inclusive, and kind. A more perfect Union is a more compassionate one.
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I played them all for you, dad: Saint Saëns, Rachmaninoff, Vivaldi, Tchaichowsky, Puccini, Smetana, Chopin, Corelli, Russini, Prokofiev, Dvořák, and Wagner. 🙌❤️
How America’s First #MemorialDay Was Lost To Racist Gaps in Our History
Eager to support veterans’ charities this #MemorialDay? Not all organizations use their donors’ dollars wisely.
Here’s how you can vet these groups to ensure your money is well-spent:
#Charity #ProTip
https://theconversation.com/want-to-support-veterans-4-tips-for-finding-good-charities-77921
Lest we forget: Remembering Charles Morton Toole of Forest Hills, killed in action in Cierges, France, Oct. 1, 1918, and today honored by a memorial stone across from the #ForestHills T stop
#Boston #JamaicaPlain #history #MemorialDay https://www.universalhub.com/2023/lest-we-forget
Walter took third place in the category for “Trucks 1950 to 1969” at the Wheels, Wings and Watercraft Show yesterday which is cool but, as I’ve mentioned before in previous years, letting people who would like to hear the story of Ryan and Walter is way better than any physical award, be it first or third place.
#MemorialDay
#RememberThem