Comments on: Snippets http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2005/05/29/snippets/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:50:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: SG http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2005/05/29/snippets/#comment-22 Tue, 31 May 2005 22:15:04 +0000 http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2005/05/29/snippets/#comment-22 Our comment was supposed to be contained in the selection and reprinting of these five items, all of which appeared in the same section of one newspaper. The theme would seem to be "that's not MY America" or how things that would have been considered inconceivable in our America of 10 years ago are cropping up with alarming regularity and are accepted as "ordinary." The Bush quote is not so good a fit, maybe, but it strikes us as a bit unseemly for a president to politicize Memorial Day, to get it flat wrong, and to trivialize the deaths of 1600 military personnel in Iraq ("some have given their lives"). Memorial Day's sole purpose is to memorialize those who gave their lives in service to their country, going back to the Revolutionary War. It has nothing to do with living veterans or serving personnel (both of which have their own holidays). Our comment was supposed to be contained in the selection and reprinting of these five items, all of which appeared in the same section of one newspaper. The theme would seem to be “that’s not MY America” or how things that would have been considered inconceivable in our America of 10 years ago are cropping up with alarming regularity and are accepted as “ordinary.”

The Bush quote is not so good a fit, maybe, but it strikes us as a bit unseemly for a president to politicize Memorial Day, to get it flat wrong, and to trivialize the deaths of 1600 military personnel in Iraq (”some have given their lives”). Memorial Day’s sole purpose is to memorialize those who gave their lives in service to their country, going back to the Revolutionary War. It has nothing to do with living veterans or serving personnel (both of which have their own holidays).

]]> by: Robyn http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2005/05/29/snippets/#comment-21 Tue, 31 May 2005 17:38:49 +0000 http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2005/05/29/snippets/#comment-21 They are all kind of alarming, but you are just repeating the story-- what are your comments on them? They are all kind of alarming, but you are just repeating the story– what are your comments on them?

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