NEWS AND VIEWS THAT IMPACT LIMITED CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams
Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces. The holiday, which is observed every year on the last Monday of May, originated as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans founded in Decatur, Illinois, established it as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the Union war dead with flowers.
By the 20th century, competing Union and Confederate holiday traditions, celebrated on different days, had merged, and Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans who died while in the military service. It typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.
The first widely publicized observance of a Memorial Day-type observance after the Civil War was in Charleston, South Carolina, on May 1, 1865. During the war, Union soldiers who were prisoners of war had been held at the Hampton Park Race Course in Charleston; at least 257 Union prisoners died there and were hastily buried in unmarked graves.
Together with teachers and missionaries, black residents of Charleston organized a May Day ceremony in 1865, which was covered by the New York Tribune and other national papers. The freedmen cleaned up and landscaped the burial ground, building an enclosure and an arch labeled "Martyrs of the Race Course". Nearly 10,000 people, mostly freedmen, gathered on May 1 to commemorate the war dead. Involved were about 3,000 school children, newly enrolled in freedmen's schools, as well as mutual aid societies, Union troops, black ministers and white northern missionaries. Most brought flowers to lay on the burial field.
David W. Blight described the day:
This was the first Memorial Day. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.
General Logan proclaimed the first "Decoration Day" to honor the fallen soldiers of the American Civil War.
He served the state of Illinois as a State Senator, a Congressman, a U.S. Senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States with James G. Blaine in the election of 1884.
Damn, it feels good taking the Blue Pill, ignoring the news and losing myself in SciFi and Fantasy.
I say let the War-Pigs burn Ukraine and the Middle East to the fucking ground and start World War III. The liar politicians don't care so why should I give a shit?
I refuse to be a puppet on the strings of the corrupt media complex. I will not dance on command to their latest propaganda.
Katniss Everdeen
The Hunger Games books are a threat to the Elites and show how average people can fight the system. The books have sold over 100,000,000 copies around the world and have been translated into 51 languages.
The Hunger Games accurately predicted our future, showing a corrupt and decadent Elite who live in extreme wealth while the people are at near starvation.
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
“District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”
The Hunger Games had touched a nerve all over the world.
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The Book sold 26 million copies before the movie was even released.
I have decided to try and start each new week off on a positive high note. But being a glass half empty kind of guy I suspect things will turn into crap soon enough.
Sugar Ray is an American alternative rock music group from Newport Beach, California. They have released a total of six studio albums, two compilation albums, and nineteen singles.
Their most successful album is 1999's 14:59, which was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It features the Top 10 singles "Every Morning" and "Someday". The songs peaked at number 3 and number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively.
Russia has just deployed uniformed military forces into Lebanon — S-400 systems, electronic warfare units, and armored battalions now positioned in the Bekaa Valley.
This changes everything for Israel's northern command, eliminates IDF air superiority over Lebanon, and puts Washington in the most dangerous strategic corner it has faced since the Cold War. This is not a drill. This is not an advisory mission. This is Russia planting its military flag on Israel's northern border — and the consequences will reshape the Middle East for decades.
A pin-up girl is a model whose mass-produced pictures and photographs have wide appeal within the popular culture of a society.
Pin-up models are usually glamour, actresses, or fashion models whose pictures are intended for informal and aesthetic display, known for being pinned onto a wall. From the 1940s, pictures of pin-up girls were also known as cheesecake in the U.S.
