Memorial Day

What do you do on Memorial day? Roast brisket and watch old war movies? Invite over your family and friends? Or head out to the beach for a day of fun in the sun?

All of this is great, in fact I've done all of these on past Memorial Days. But what is Memorial day? Just a holiday, Nope. It's a day for celebrating the men and women, both dead and alive, who fought for our country. They gave up freedoms and sometimes their lives so we could live freely and without fear.

I have a few relatives and friends that were in the military and helped fight wars. All of my grandfathers, and great grandfathers, plus my cousin Cody,  and my dad's cousin Jeff served sometime in one of America's wars.

The old war movies are great. I especially love anything to do with WWII and the war in the pacific with the Japanese. My favorite wartime movie is Patton. George S. Patton, was America's best and most controversial General that served in WWII. He fought Hitler's Afrika Corps in Africa and then won Italy alongside British General Montgomery to end Mussolini's rule.

He believed that America was the BEST country, and that we should always be ready to fight, because fighting is how we gained our independence, it's in our blood. General Patton was a remarkable man despite believing that he had been reincarnated from history's best warriors. Many called him a romantic warrior, a sixteenth century man trapped in the 20th century. I agree. He wanted to attack Sicily, like the Athenians had done centuries before. The general was turned down, but he still made many contributions to the allied war effort. 

I think General Patton was prophetic. The man predicted our future conflict with Russia, after the Yalta meeting, where the Soviet's "special interests" in Europe were recognized. Patton believed that we would soon be fighting a war with the Russians, and said we should make the first move, while we were prepared and well armed after WWII.

America didn't actually fight Russia, but the Cold war and the space race added tension, that if not defused could have started WWIII!

I love the movie, and all the actors.

This is why America is great, because of the people who died protecting our citizens. They deserve our utmost respect.

Happy Memorial day everyone!

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