Just Remember, Okay?
May 25, 2009
Today’s intended post on Memorial Day remains unwritten.
Every year around this time I find myself watching war movies that wrench your guts out and leave you crying – and they’re only movies. They’re just pale reflections of what they represent. At the end, the guy gets up, wipes off the blood and the horror and goes to eat in the cantina on the lot.
Or I stop and spend time remembering those who did give their life in the service of their country… and inevitably, I travel down the road of grief & contradictions and confusions that attend it.
I never manage to write anything I’m happy with. So I just seem to put something up like this… Last minute on the day of. Hoping people kind of missed it. Because it’s not about me at all.
It’s about trying to find a way to say thank you to all of the men & women who gave their lives in the service of their countries. Whatever else they were or weren’t – they were soldiers. May they rest in piece.
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I’ll just say that the depth of feeling you have for those who gave their life is amazing. For you to not be able to put it into words…
*hugs you*