Memorial Day Roundup...

Some links for you on this day that we honor our veterans:

My blog-girl Rachel Lucas on her visit to Normandy.  Her experience echoes my own nearly exactly – the folks from Normandy treat Americans so differently than other French people that they seem like another country...

A nice collection of Memorial Day videos...

My all-time favorite quote for Memorial Day, from General George S. Patton:

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

And finally, Tim McGraw's classic song for Memorial Day:

Remembering 9/11...

This morning I find it hard to concentrate on anything other than remembering that awful day 10 years ago.  Wandering around the intertubes, I ran into some related things that struck me for one reason or another.  First, George W. Bush's speech yesterday dedicating the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania:





Don Surber looks forward, saying “We shall fear no evil.”

Neo-neocon declares the 9/11 memorial in New York a “Fitting tribute.”

A pilot who was ready to give her life on 9/11.

And finally, Mark Steyn in his inimitable fashion skewers the multi-culti, touchy-feely, pansy wing's response to 9/11.  As usual with him, I feel the need to laugh and cry at the same time...

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... We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate…we cannot consecrate…we cannot hallow…this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced...

Abraham Lincoln, from the Gettysburg Address...

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From Cox and Forkum.

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Remember, today, those men and women who have given their lives that we might be free. Sullivan Ballou, killed in the first Battle of Bull Run (in the U.S. Civil War), was one of them...