tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post2875106103169115819..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: On Memorial Day 2020 SiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-72491463482965218172020-05-31T10:55:28.705-04:002020-05-31T10:55:28.705-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04462814472512494086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-62191007813203575302020-05-25T18:25:39.027-04:002020-05-25T18:25:39.027-04:00That is so moving. God/Dog. There's a reason f...That is so moving. God/Dog. There's a reason for that.The Gunslingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09875467049527347640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-31897676553452774112020-05-25T08:56:16.021-04:002020-05-25T08:56:16.021-04:00This is the first time I've ever heard him cal...This is the first time I've ever heard him called that; I guess it's fitting as it comes of having too much dog for breakfastboronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05780356895910449471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-14060474932782484002020-05-25T04:17:21.068-04:002020-05-25T04:17:21.068-04:00Operation Red Wings (Afghanistan) was one of a num...Operation Red Wings (Afghanistan) was one of a number of botched situations and I could rant but I won't. Suffice to say that we all owe a great deal to those people who put it all on the line for us. We tend to recall personal friends or the storied, but there have been millions of slain that took this country from British/French/Spanish rule to where it is today and we owe each one of them. <br /><br />Think of Obama crowing "You didn't build that". Of course, Barky wasn't referring to the veterans who gave all. But they, who put it all on the altar of freedom did make it possible. So we have Memorial Day. It's not as much as they deserve, but it's our way of doing what we can to turn hearts in that direction every year.LLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538854359365988863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-70125682291287411082020-05-24T23:09:54.233-04:002020-05-24T23:09:54.233-04:00I make it my ritual to pick a campaign or location...I make it my ritual to pick a campaign or location and read the Medal of Honor citations resulting from that.<br /><br />And...<br /><br />Thanks to Robert Heinlein, I always read or listen to "The Ballad of Roger Young." And then read the history behind it. Roger Young was a Sergeant who was going deaf and blind, and took a reduction to Private to stay with his squad. And died for them in New Georgia in the Solomons.<br /><br />Not even dusty. Makes me cry every time. Reading "Starship Troopers" (not that horrid film...) does it, too.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.com