Buy a poppy.

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,916

A flag so proud:

 

They are expecting 117,000 people at the Indy 500 this weekend. It’s tradition. I always listened to it on the radio while trimming back overgrown forsythia. There will also be millions of people standing, heads down, before grave stones. Stones engraved with names of beloved family members who died in the wars that kept America free. Solid, granite stones preserving proud memories of human courage, each with a USA flag waving in the May breezes. Happy Memorial Day, all you heroes of ours. I hope the people in this great country of everything, remember this weekend that all that is so great, all of what we have didn’t come easy. And preserving it could be quite heard it we keep our eyes closed. God bless them all.

 

What’s the difference between a dirty bus stop and a lobster with breast implants? One’s a crusty bus station, and the other is a busty crustacean  

 

Instead of saying something like “How’s the weather?” at cocktail parties and backyard barbecues, the new default tedious conversation starter is now, “Are you still wearing a mask in stores?” 

 

The Question:

Why is the Poppy so symbolic of Memorial Day, Remembrance Day?

 

The Headlines:

--Stocks Up For Third Straight Day; Happy Economic News: Consumer Spending Picks Up, Personal Income Falls Less Than Expected.

--Microsoft Reveals New Attacks Form Russia Hackers.

--Repub Senators Able To Nix Probe Into Capitol Aggression.

--New Yahoo News? YouGov Pll: More Americans Say Violent Crime (49%) Now Bigger Problem Than Covid (32%); Other Concerns – Race Relations (41%), Economy (39%), Political Correctness ((39%).

--San Jose Murderer Was To Have Faced Disciplinary Meeting That Day.

--Coast Guard Says 2 Dead, 10 Missing In Boating Mishap In Florida Keys; Eight Rescued..

 

 

Inflation is everywhere. A reader sends us this latest revelation: “A customer exclaims to a waitress, ‘$29.96 for a club sandwich!!”. She replied calmly, “It’s usually $6.95, but the cost of lumber is so high, the four toothpicks drive up the price.”

 

Have you tried to buy a piece of lumber lately? Building a simple sawhorse costs a fortune.

 

I’m thinking that if Russian attackers have a way of atatcking techno-scientist rich Microsoft, I don’t stand a chance. Ouch! good thing there is nothing valuable n my computer except great memories saved. And my brain serves as backup for them.

 

I hope Wokesville keeps on commenting and condemning because for a so-called wannabee humorist like me, it just keeps in giving. It’s just that it is so sad that humans can be like that.

 

I really don’t like the idea of congress passing a national law that governs local police departments. Or. for that matter, local anything.

 

Maybe this is the weekend when the parades come back to town.

 

States give powers to the Feds like printing money, declaring war, creating treaties, regulating interstate and country commerce, maintaining a militia and Navy, secure for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries, establish rules of naturalization, establish post offices and post roads. Nowhere does it say the Feds have the power to micromanage the individual or the places in which they live.

 

People of the USA should never be identity groupified nor the states be homogenized. Let differences reign.

 

Reading Between the Lines Movie Reviews:

--The Big highly publicized movie Is Cruella, but intelligent observers wonder whether we needed a film about the back story of this notorious villain. The best part of the movie is the acting by a couple of Emma’s, Stone and Thompson. But most will wonder why they are watching it. It’s about an ambitious young woman. Estella. looking for the an edge in the world of high fashion resorts to her evil side. This is my snobby, arrogant critical review. In actuality, people will probably find it interesting if they are fans of 101 Dalmatians.

--If you like Horror movies you should leak Quiet Place; Part II, which is much better than the popular first installment. The Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

 

The Answer:

The poppy as a symbol of war casualties started with a poem by Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, who during WWI, saw bright red poppies blooming on the war-torn fields where so many soldiers had lost their lives. He wrote “In Flanders Fields.”:

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

    That mark our place; and in the sky

    The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

 

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

    Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

        In Flanders fields.

 

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

    The torch; be yours to hold it high.

        In Flanders fields. 

  If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields.

The poem was published in a London magazine and later syndicated to publications in other Allied countries, where it was seen by two women in different countries and who were inspired in different ways. American University of Georgia professor Moïna Michael wrote a poem in response to McCrae’s, titled “We Shall Keep Faith,” in 1918. She also started wearing a red poppy in honor of the troops and came up with the idea of making and selling red poppies to raise money for veterans. Meanwhile, in France, Anna Guérin organized large poppy drives, making and selling poppies to raise money for widows, orphans, and veterans, and to fund France’s post-war restoration efforts. She championed her idea for an “Inter-Allied Poppy Day”.  “If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields.”

 

 

How come when the Feds give back to states and towns their resident’s tax money for specific public needs, the Feds assume they can now regulate whoever takes back their own money.

 

I only mention this, because so many great, wonderful, courageous people gave their lives for freedom and independence that should never be compromised.

 

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!