Memorial Day thought

[rmd]

It's been nearly 150 years since we started having Memorial Day (aka "Decoration Day") to honor the military who died in the Civil War (later expanded to all fallen military once we had a few more wars with lots of battle deaths). Eventually, the Civil War will stop being a scar on this country's psyche, but I think it's going to take at least a couple more generations.

Comments

[muffyjo]

I think if you ask Greece right now, they would strongly disagree with you. Not to mention the Cypriots. They are a rather large group of people who feel their rights are being removed, but I am guessing you are talking about slavery which is a nice way to remember the war but wasn't the only reason it started despite being the biggest reason it succeeded.

And while we now pay folks for their work, I'm not sure that battle is yet won, either. People are now free to be incredibly poor. But that's a discussion for a different day.

We fight over land, and possessions and people who hurt other people so we fight them to stop hurting people we love...it's kind of a screwy system that is built to perpetuate itself.

[clauclauclaudia]

The current federalism/rights thing that leapt to my mind was gay marriage. Though voters' rights is arguably much bigger and more important.