- Included in the Holiday Messages.
- It is easy to forget what a war was about, but such gripes need to always be said from a place of respect and dignity for the people who fought the war.
Martin Winfree
May 25, 2015
As we are now doing with the Iraq War, it is easy to forget what a war was about, and to look back and say, what was the point of all that? I have done it plenty of times myself. Bob Dylan (whose 68th birthday was yesterday) famously said of World War I: “The reason for fighting I never did get”. There is a memorial to the veterans of “The Great War” in Abingdon Square near where I lived in Greenwich Village. But such gripes need to always be said from a place of respect and dignity for the people who fought the war. For myself, I have a display box holding the flag that was draped over the coffin of my grandfather Will C. Nowell, who was a veteran of World War I; and it is a real treasure that I have in sight of the desk in my home office. Happy Memorial Day, everybody!
Rachel Wagoner
Beautifully worded. Happy Memorial Day, Uncle Martin!
Peter Persinger
Now it’s an established business. The only permanent emergency people will vote that much money to manufacturers for. How great if it was say, reading. Preditory wars seemed to slow for a time after the War in Vietnam rebellion, but they fix that glitch and now it’s back to usual.