Un-Memorial Day-a moment to pray fo those who died in an unnecessary war....

[kpete]

The Un-Memorial Day
By: looseheadprop Thursday May 1, 2008 9:06 am

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It is my hope that everyone who passes by and is reminded, will take a moment to say a prayer, or hold a good thought for the brave young men and women who fought and died in an unnecessary war of aggression started by a coward who used his Daddy's influence to hide out in the National Guard when there was real fighting to do in Viet Nam, and then went AWOL, just to rub salt in the wound.

Yet, John McCain thinks it's just swell to give us 4 more years of senseless war, let's see that will take us all the way to 9 years after "Mission Accomplished?" When is the MSM going to wake up to the fact that McCain is running on a platform to continue a war that is opposed by the vast majority of the American people? When is he going to get pounded with this anti-democratic, imperialist platform plank?

Starting tomorrow, the best and most sincere thing we can do to honor our fallen sons and daughters is to make sure that the press, the Congress and every person we meet is talking about the war. How bad it is going, how pointless it is, how much worse off we are for having started it, how we need to end it. How John McCain doesn't want to end it.

If we don't remember our dead children who died in the war of George Bush's convenience, no one will. If we don't save our still living children from the continuation of this pointless slaughter, no one will. We must fight here at home, so our children don't have to fight far from home.

more at:
http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/01/the-un-memorial-day/