Today's Tids Issue 4,135
For the day the soldiers died:
My
mind has known the anguish. My lips have said the prayers. My
heart has leapt to the spirit of the brave who stand tall. My ears have heard
the rumble of bombs bursting and the screams of the maimed. My tears run down
and I feel the sadness in my belly. My logic tells me to stop the killing, but
the tyrants must be stopped. All my senses praise the courage of all who fought
and won. I am but a human, who continually wonders why. My hands come together
in prayer, for all who have come to the Lord; all who still have battles
bitter, and many yet to fight. My eyes close, My head bows.
I
recall Memorial days of yore when I would turn on my
radio in the backyard to listen to The Indy 500 while cutting down forsythia.
The snipping of shears, the roar of engines, and a few birds tweeting. And I
would always stop to remember why this day is so quiet, with memories so deep.
Having
passed his recruitment physical, the boy John was asked
by the doctor why he wanted to join the Navy. “Because,” said the boy, “my
father said it was a good idea’. “And what does your father do,” asked the doc.
The Recruit responded, “He’s in the Army, sir.”
The
Question:
Name the Ten National cemeteries that Americans
should try to visit at least once.
The
Headlines:
--Oil Prices Dropping Bode Stormy Day for Stocks;
Real Estate Mortgages Creep Up To New 7 Year High.
--Trump Praises Positive NK Statement Expressing
Willingness To Re-Enter Talks; Says Dems Hoping talks Wil Fail.
--Weinstein Arrested On Charges Of Rape And Sex
Playing.
--John McCain And Othrs Parse Trump’s Pardon of Jack
Johnson; McCain Improving.
--Explosion At Canadian India Restaurant Wounds 15,
3 Critical; Two Masked People Dropped Off Home-Made Bomb And Fled; Armed
Customer At Oklahoma Restaurant Shoots Potential Mass Killer Who Opened Fire At
Patrons.
The
cows
in the meadow just love Moomorial day.
The
Trump NK cancellation is just part of this ongoing
one-upmanship game. Peacocks spreading their colorful tailfeathers. In addition
to the President saying -- You can’t insult out Vice-President and not feel
repercussions.
ESPN
is another of those former comfortable get-aways
that has lost its direction, trading a place for mindless distraction to just one
more annoying political battlefront. And I have to say I feel sorry for some of
the execs who may have let their baby stray. It has become a biased political entity
and has lost not just this listener, but thousands. Many of their sports guys
have become pompous “Journalists”, mush too precious for these everyman ears. One female star Anchor named Jemele Hill has
put CEO Skipper (Great name for a CEO) in a real box, she called Trump “A white
Supremist”. Skipper says that if he punishes her he is branded a racist with
sure to come associated public protests. If he doesn’t his networks suffers the
wrath of regular Americans who just love sports without the soap boxes. Actually,
I became disenchanted with ESPN many years ago, way before their rush to
politics, even before they started dissing Tom Brady and the NE Pats. I just
don’t like the pretense of their announcers.
The
world is getting much too complex for me. I just received something
from the European Union telling me I am now required to give EU visitors
information about my cookies. Ok, I like butterscotch chocolate chip. How’s
that! Actually, I have to add a notice about cookies to my blog
worldviewetc.blogspot.com. I hope they do it for me, because I a haven’t a
clue. Ok. I just checked and found the Cookie monster doesn’t appear on USA
versions, but I entered a couple of EU country codes in place of .com, and there
it was. Whatever happened to dial-up?
And,
to top it off, I am having trouble finds a good pun of the day to keep you
laughing over the weekend.
This
is the May we have been waiting for, clear skies and no
humidity. But it is still delightfully cool as oceans breezes off cold waters
still dominate the climate. Life is good until the waters get warm.
Talking
about getting caught in the middle, activist groups want
major companies like Anheiser and Ford and Nike to boycott the NFL, and in reality,
condone desecration of the flag and the nation. Mine yes have seen the glory…
I
must be a stagnant, grumpy old son of a bitch, because I
just get the excitement over Corden and Levine’s Carpool Karaoke.
Today.
I
just throw out the forsythia brought inside the first days of Spring to force
blooms, fall asleep in front of the Indy TV cast, while millions of birds in
the cybersphere go on tweeting about nothing. That’s birds as in turkeys.
Kilauea
Lava
makes for great TV news pics, but how broad is its effect on the entire state?
Will it eventually suck in Hawaii, Oregon and California? That’s the big
question, and I don’t think Armageddon is near.
Leader
in the Clubhouse, Department:
While all eyes have been on Amazon, it appears that
Durham North Carolina could be HQ2 for Apple! There are rumblings saying that this
Carolina College town and thriving city will be the new 2nd headquarters
for Tim Cook’s place. The south will rise again. All it needed was little air
conditional.
Reading
between the lines Movie Reviews:
--Solo; A Star Wars Story will do well because of the
second part of the story. Fans will go to see it but should have their sights
lowered as this one about Solo and Chew is just not as good as the rest. But,
who anm I dot dissuade SW fands form going.
--The Critics are all in love with the coming of age
pic Summer 1993, about a young girl n Barcelona who must adjust to a new life
with relatives after her mother dies. It’s a visual treat with moving yet
controlled episodes in ten days of a little girl find herself and the love form
a new family in a countryside opposite her earlier city life.
The
European Union is messin’ with my Tids. God help us.
The
Answer:
Maybe a few NFL players should take the tour and
kneel at some of these cemeteries, to feel the pain, the horror that brave soldiers
face to let them play the game. The ten Cemeteries on the list beyond the broad
Fields of crosses at Normandy are National Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii,
with graves of 33,230 soldiers who perished across the Pacific. Fort Rosecrans
Cemetery in San Diego overlooks the broad Pacific and honors ships lost at the
battle of Samar off the Philippines. Santa Fe[RH1]
National Cemetery was the national cemetery of the Western pioneers and the
soldiers who manned all of those frontier forts. San Francisco National
Cemetery honors those soldiers and citizens of recent tragedies like 911, Iraq and
Afghanistan (Will the SF Town fathers close it down?). The big one, you
probably all know -- Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Gettysburg
National Began 150 years ago today when Lincoln dedicated it with his
Gettysburg Address, just 6 months after the battle, before all of the bodies
had been found. Andersonville National Cemetery contains remains of 13,000
Union soldiers who perished at the Southern Andersonville Prison, and is
dedicated to all American prisoners of war. Fort Leavenworth National is at the
Fort that was the Crossroads of Western Expansion and contains remains of all
who were found dead in the Western Theater. Just North of Paris is Oise-Aisne
American Cemetery and Memorial for WWI victims.
So, bow your heads for a moment or two.
My
eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord…
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