Daily Archives: Monday May 26th, 2008

I hope everyone had a good Memorial Day. But looking at the news of all the tornadoes in the Midwest, it may not of been. And that is not even all the men and women of uniform who are serving and not spending it with their families.

Our day just flew right by us.

We got up and did our gym thing, some how I lost a little more weight over the weekend..which is cool. I think my body is no longer in the starvation mode that the reduction of calories will do when you 1st start it.

We then went to Home Depot, just to get a nozzle and another rose bush……lol…..well it didn’t happen that way. Left with a couple of plants for a flower box I decided I wanted, dirty, the rose bush, a few planters, a cactus, a fan for downstairs and a few other gardening things….blew that budget……..grin Then a quick stop at the store since we were out of meat, not a good thing in this house.

Of course, when we got home we had to take care of some of our gardening. By the time we got done with that it was 1400 and we had left the gym just after 1100….lol No shower, hadn’t started work (good thing it has been slow due to the holiday)…..and we were wiped out. So we laid down for about an hour, didn’t even really sleep, but it felt good to snuggle into our blankets.

So other then a shower and dinner, I’ve just being tying up some work. We are currently watching the classic In Harm’s Way, one of the few WWII movies that I really enjoy. It gives a stripped down unglorified version of the war that so many of movies of that era did. There is divorce, adultery, estranged father-son, rape….. all the taboos that were avoided in the 60s…………….. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Harm’s_Way Definitely one that I will adding to my Ipod.

It won’t be Memorial Day without some articles about the true reason of today, not the bbqs….of course, most of the stories bring me to tears.

Group Salutes Vets by Helping Them Get Benefits

The University of Detroit Mercy Law School has started an organization called Project Salute in which law students and professors give veterans free legal help in navigating the complex federal bureaucracy to get the disability benefits they deserve.
Bush Pays Tribute to Troops on Memorial Day

**He may honestly feel grateful to our military, but everytime he speaks I feel he is a hypocrite…….both him and Cheney did everything they could to avoid serving……there is so much I could vent about, but I don’t feel that it would be right in this posting.

‘I Want to Go Home … Especially on Memorial Day’

On this day, just like any other day, these twenty-somethings who fight for the U.S. Army in Baghdad remembered their friends, their colleagues, the men who they fight, eat and sleep next to.

But it is not a holiday for the more than 150,000 troops stationed in Iraq. Today was just another work day — a day during which the Raider Brigade of the 1st Battalion of the 22nd Infantry Regiment, which is based at 881, did what it does every day: went on a foot patrol.

A family remembers their Medal of Honor recipient

**This tears the heart.

Casino mogul hosts wounded soldiers in Vegas

**This was really neat.

Last known WWI vet gets Memorial Day honors

**I use to work at a Veteran’s Home during college, I remember we had about 20-30 WWI vets left, it has been 12 years and yet the US is down to 1. Kind of hard to believe.