Another Memorial Day

I was able to take part in Grangeville’s Memorial Day ceremony again this year, something I have been doing for many years now, and that I consider to be quite an honor.  Memorial Day, as you know, is a national holiday we have set aside to honor America’s dead service members, AMERICAN soldiers lost in the wars we have fought since our revolution.

Copying a practice that began in the Southern states, on May 5, 1868, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, General John A. Logan issued a proclamation calling for a "Decoration Day" to be observed annually and nationwide, initially to honor and to decorate the graves of those Union soldiers who died during our Civil War.  Eventually the Confederate Veterans merged their Memorial Day with that of the Union Vets.  It was observed for the first time that year on Saturday May 30; the date was chosen because it was not the anniversary of any particular battle.  According to the White House, the May 30 date was chosen as the optimal date for flowers to be in bloom.  Following the usual convoluted path of American holiday history, Decoration Day became Memorial Day, and was declared to be the last Monday in May, so that federal employees could have a three day weekend.  Traditionally on that day, we decorate the graves of our dead, have an occasional parade, the President lays a floral wreath at the grave of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, makes a speech, and then we all run out and soak up a lot of beer and a few hamburgers.

Occasionally the President is unable to attend the wreath laying ceremony due to the press of other duties, which is understandable.  (Vacations and golf games excepted in my mind!)  This year, Mr. Obama was in Vietnam and Japan representing our nation, not at Arlington National Cemetery.  OK, well and fine… BUT…

WHAT IN GOD”S GREEN EARTH is this babbling idiot doing in Hiroshima Japan on our Memorial Day weekend, weeping over Japan’s war casualties and apologizing for WW II?!

“Death fell from the sky” in Hiroshima, said the man with three Muslim names, apparently forgetting that “death fell from the sky” on Pearl Harbor as well, which brought the US into that war.  Or has he forgotten that Imperial Japan tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of allied POW’s and civilians in the Pacific, and uncounted Chinese civilians as well?  Or perhaps that Japan kept fighting after they were totally defeated, and after the first atomic bomb, only surrendering after the second.  An invasion of Japan was in the works, to force them to stop fighting.  Experts believed that this “final battle” would cost one million casualties, both American and Japanese.  Imperial Japan brought the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima on themselves.  But our globalist, sociopathic apologist, moronic “president” tours and grovels and bows and scrapes to all and sundry, all the while ignoring the very people… and the national problems… he was hired to take care of in the first place! 

I’m not a fan of apologies, or in this case even the appearance of an apology.  Japan attacked Pearl Harbor by surprise, killing over two thousand Americans.  In those first few days they attacked the US, Philippine, English, Australian and New Zealand’s possessions, followed by Indo-china, Siam, Burma, Indonesia, and Java.  In doing so they killed thousands of soldiers, captured thousands more, and killed, captured, or enslaved millions of innocent civilians.  They started the war, we merely ended it. They committed terrible atrocities against allied soldiers and POW’s throughout the war.  Yet our nuclear bombs didn’t just take lives, those atomic bombs actually saved far more Japanese lives than they took.

Being somewhat outspoken in public, I often sound-off about all the apologies the liberal left demands we tender to just about every non-American on the planet!  As a result I’ve often been lectured about the apologies we owe to Soviet Russia, Japan, Germany, North Korea and Red China!  Then there were the American Indians, African-Americans, and of course a few groups I’ve never even heard of!  I suppose we owe England an apology for declaring our independence as well!  With Monday, June 6^th, being the 72ed anniversary of the Normandy invasion, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see this incompetent blithering idiot apologize to Nazi Germany for eliminating their tyrannical hold on Europe.  No better than he likes the Israelis, he’ll probably be offering to rebuild the crematorium at Auschwitz as well! 

Author Wayne Allyn Root describes the situation with our apologist in chief quite well…  “Obama and his socialist cronies should apologize to every middle class American for the harm they've done to the U.S. economy; upward mobility; middle class jobs and the American Dream.  They've created an unimaginable DISASTER. They’ve destroyed the greatest nation…the greatest economy…the greatest economic system …and greatest middle class in world history.”

Both Democrats and Republicans say that "We're broke" and can't help our own seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless, and Etc.  But, over the last several years they have provided direct cash aid to...  Hamas - $351 M, Libya - $1.45 B, Egypt - $397 M, Mexico - $622 M, Russia - $380 M, Haiti - $1.4 B, Jordan - $463 M, Kenya - $816 M, Sudan - $870 M, Nigeria - $456 M, Uganda - $451 M, Congo - $359 M, Ethiopia - $981 M, Pakistan - $2 B, South Africa - $566 M, Senegal - $698 M, Mozambique - $404 M, Zambia - $331 M, Kazakhstan - $304 M, Iraq - $1.08 B, Tanzania - $554 M.  Literally Billions of Dollars, and those folks still hate us!  He sends billions of dollars in military and foreign aid to countries that are awash in petro-dollars!

We live in a country where we have countless Homeless without shelter, Children going to bed hungry, Elderly going without needed medication and the Mentally ill without treatment.  Our schools are desperate for funding, yet Obama demands Congress allocate almost $18,000 for every illegal alien child or teen that enters America.  Billions more goes to other illegal aliens for welfare. 

The Left, and parts of the Right, seems to think that any problem can be solved if we just throw more money at it.  They of course look at the American taxpayer as an endless cash cow.  Not, apparently, recognizing that the cow’s gone dry, and that when you’re deep in the hole, it’s best to stop digging!  Our congress critters aren’t much better either.  They sit around twiddling their thumbs and plotting the next election while our chief disbarred lawyer and his appointed “Czars” pass federal laws by some sort of “Imperial” decree!

So yes, I reckon the liberals are right after all, it is time for an apology.  They, and Mr. Obama, owe a world-class apology to the American people for what they’ve done to this country.