Memorial Day - Spadecaller »
Posted By Spadecaller 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsAccompanied by composer Antonin Dvo?ák's New World Symphony - Largo (Symphony No. 9 Op. 95), this video showcases the reality of war as it pertains to those who fight them, their imprisonment, and the scapegoats of war who often become the innocent targets for crimes against humanity. The musical introduction for the audio of this video includes Taps performed by U.S. Military Bagpipes & Massed Bands Pipes & Drums of the Welsh Guards.
At a social gathering in 1865, Henry C. Welles, a druggist in the village of Waterloo, New York suggested that honor should be shown to the patriotic dead of the Civil War by decorating their graves. The following spring he again suggested it to General John B. Murray, Seneca County Clerk, who embraced the idea and set aside a day devoted to honoring the dead. Townspeople adopted the idea wholeheartedly by decorating the town with flags at half-mast and draping evergreen boughs and mourning black streamers.
Since that day our nation has surely made its significance a relevant part of the American experience.
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Mikunited5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Excellent video,with no sham patriotism,just warm humanism.
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So many wars.so many deaths,so many injuries,so many peoples lives touched,in one way or another.It makes you wonder why the human species seems to hate each other so much.After all we are all the same essentially.
A mother crying over her dead son,brother or husband feels the same despair,whatever her color,religion,politics or culture.A dead soldier laying on the battlefield, represents a life thrown away.Why is there so much focus on our differences,when there are so many similarities.
The end of this video is perfect,"time for peace".Time to realise we are all members of the human family.Winston Churchill once said,"the best way to defeat your enemies is to make them your friends".He was no peacenik,but was spot on with this statement,-
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Spadecaller5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Thanks.
Well spoken, my friend. The popularity of our leaders appearing beside the gravestones and memorials of our fallen soldiers seemed to have lost so much of its appeal after Bush;s reign of terror; the ramifications of his and Cheney's contribution to the violence in our world are from from over.
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spkguy5 months, 3 weeks ago
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A Poem For Peace
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By Tammy Kane
Our nation’s innocence is lost,
Stolen by acts of hate.
Helpless people paid the cost,
For them it is too late.
Daughters, sons, husbands, wives,
Sisters, friends and brothers.
All of them have lost their lives,
To senseless acts of others.
New York’s city has been defaced.
Bodies lay in rubble.
They can never be replaced.
But war won’t end our trouble.
Angers only escalate,
As we point out the guilt.
Violence will perpetuate.
While we dig through the silt.
Cries of anger, cries for war,
Echo in the air.
As if our bombs and missiles soar,
It will make it fair.
People claim "eye for an eye"
Our nation wants to fight.
If their innocent people die,
Then will that make US right?
Punishment surely must take place.
These murderers must pay.
But they are groups and not a race.
Keep liberty in mind, each day.
We are people of goodwill,
Of truth and love and light.
Please give thought before you kill,
Take heed before you fight.
We ask, what do we tell our children?
How do we give them ease?
Reactions set examples for them,
Should we not teach them peace? -
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cowboygrandpa5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Spadecaller:
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Each year I pray there will be no more to honor, and each year I'm disappointed.
For about the last ten years I've also been remembering those from the other side who fought against us.
Death is death, and I wonder how many of them realized the futility of the insanity we were caught up in.
How many of them realized that the deaths of their friends, families,loved ones were for the politicians and wealthy of the nations who were fighting for control of massive wealth and power.
Yes I remember all to well the dead, and I cringe in my sleep still. Never to put aside the love my brothers had, or the dreams so many never got to live.
To me the best way to honor the dead is to remain true to the ideals of this nation.
Liberty and justice for all !!! That includes the citizens of other nations. Who should be at liberty from our attacks against them for their natural resources. Or the imposition of our sort of "Democracy."
I honor those who bravely gave their all, and know that they await the promise be kept. -
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jimdoze5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony is one of my very favorites. In fact, I heard it played live 2 weeks ago.
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Deaths in war are always heartbreakingly sad. But, the saddest part of this presentation are your words here... that you have chosen to dishonor the war dead of our most recent conflict by defining the decisions made by the Bush Administration and the sacrifices made by the dead and wounded as being of "Bush;s reign of terror".
The contributions Bush and Cheney have made to preventing regional war and quite possibly world war, will never be admitted to by you and yours on the left. However, those contributions are real... and the sacrifices made by those in that effort are decidedly not in vain. There are 10s of millions living whose lives would have been otherwise shortened.
I honor all involved (particularly the Americans), living and dead. Closer to home, I have a nephew there right now... there is nothing you can say that will convince him, his mom and dad, and me, that he is not there for a good and honorable purpose.-
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cowboygrandpa5 months, 3 weeks ago
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All soldiers think they are there for good and honorable purposes.
Hitlers soldiers thought the same thing as did the Japanese.
Hell I thought I was there to save our country from Communism, ya know the big red menace.
Who do we trade with now ??? Vietnam and China !!!!!!
Nothing good comes from wars of ideology.
God bless and watch over your nephew and his buddies. May he return home whole and in good health.
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gamahuche5 months, 3 weeks ago
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jim - I value your opinion but that doesn't mean that I think you are other than totally wrong.
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Bush and Cheney - especially -had far too much personal profit at stake for it to be possible to imagine that their decisions were made honourably and honestly.
In the annotations of history on the world stage in 50 years time they will be ranked amongst the worst of the worst on an international level.
I can't speak for what the US will make of them then. It always mystifies me that Reagan is looked on as just a somewhat spaced out cowboy and that nothing else has stuck to him. Just for example..
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reallypsst5 months, 3 weeks ago
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In viewing this post i contemplated the years our nation was at peace, and concluded the times are short lived in between wars,we all desire peace and sometimes we have to fight in order to attain it,can america stay out of world affairs and still insure our freedoms and protection i think not,we are living in a era of nuclear annihilation.Sure america has the ability to stand by and watch but can the rest of the world do the same,so we remember all on memorial day and humbly thank them for their sacrifices ,and remain ever watchful and alert till we find a universal peaceful solution !
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reallypsst5 months, 3 weeks ago
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In viewing this post i contemplated the years our nation was at peace, and concluded the times are short lived in between wars,we all desire peace and sometimes we have to fight in order to attain it,can america stay out of world affairs and still insure our freedoms and protection i think not,we are living in a era of nuclear annihilation.Sure america has the ability to stand by and watch but can the rest of the world do the same,so we remember all on memorial day and humbly thank them for their sacrifices ,and remain ever watchful and alert till we find a universal peaceful solution !
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Spadecaller5 months, 3 weeks ago
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"...sometimes we have to fight in order to attain it [peace]..."
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Would you call that a 'War on War'?
I've heard that odd line of "reasoning" before; but it obviously hasn't worked.
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Charlson5 months, 3 weeks ago
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"that you have chosen to dishonor the war dead of our most recent conflict by defining the decisions made by the Bush Administration and the sacrifices made by the dead and wounded as being of "Bush;s reign of terror"."
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BS. Dishonoring our fallen heroes is only accomplished when they've been sent to an unjust and unnecessary war. Spadecaller and most of the posters on this thread honor our fallen warriors but not the people who sent them to wars for profit and empire building. -
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Radiofreeeuropa5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Sadly the history of mankind is pretty much a history of warfare with the victors getting to write the history book, while the losers are forgotten. On Memorial day we honor those who served so bravely, a completely different issue than whether or not the leaders who put them in harms way were justified. Someday as Lennon said "war is over... if you want it". Someday they will give a war and no one will come. Someday mankind will see the madness and rise above it. Sadly that day is not today.
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Spadecaller5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Having been through a unnecessary war myself, I know how horrible it is for a soldier to have to face the fact that he (or she) was sent in harms way to line the pockets of those who profit from selling arms.
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That is why the most vulnerable of our society, the poor and uneducated, are often the ones who shoulder most of this burden. That is why it was not surprising to me when McCain rejected the proposal of providing veterans with grants for education after serving our nation.
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automan9095 months, 3 weeks ago
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You lefties are obviously living in a state of denial.
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Freedom is not free and if it were up to you all we would all be slaves to tyrants like Hitler, Chavez, Bin-Laden, Hussein, and the likes.
Thankfully we have had leadership with a full brain instead of halfwits like Spadecaller in charge of our freedom.
We have a halfwit in charge of it right now and we will rid our Country of his incompetint Marxist ways in 4 years.
Hopefully there will still be a Country left to save by then.-
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cowboygrandpa5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Get a clue Bin Living Without A Brain.
Bush destroyed this nation as much as he could hoping it would fall so it would be like Germany in WWII. War like and needing to follow the Fuhrer.
Thank God Americans say the truth, and kept Bomb Iran McCrazy out of there.
Say Goodbye to the insanity of the Bush crowd. They belong in an insane assylum. You right along with them Hypocrite. -
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Icantwait5 months, 3 weeks ago
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My Fellow Americans: We know who you are that object to the truth. We know where you are that object to the truth. We are watching you're every rant. Don't think your radical comments are not being watched or read. Sometimes names are just tossed about to see if you are reading the truth. Bernanke just happen to be one of them. It is believed that when the title of an entity writing a comment, or an Icon appears, immediately a People Who Didn't Like This Comment is recorded. While the guts of the comment is never actually read. Too Bad, this too reaction is being analyzed by the overseers. The Real American
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Spadecaller5 months, 3 weeks ago
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I have read some real sick crap on Propeller, but I must admit that your comments usually rank among the top of them. You need to get some medication or get off the meth.
"It is believed that when the title of an entity writing a comment, or an Icon appears, immediately a People Who Didn't Like This Comment is recorded."
What kind of sick drivel is that? What does it even mean? It is believed by who? Is it believed by some nut-job like you who is experiencing delusions of grandeur coupled with hallucinations and voices in your sick head? Get some help before you hurt yourself or someone else.
Your distorted idea of what makes a "Real American" sounds more like something that one would hear from a patient wearing paper sippers in a hat factory.
Thank God that the vast majority of real Americans are not like you, then we would be in a virtual hell hole. My best advice for someone like you is this: get some lithium for your manic delusions because the downside for the drop that will come for you will not be soft. You need help.
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engineer5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Spadecaller,
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This is one of the most touching and important videos. It should be wide spread. The continuous warring must be stopped. Eisenhower said "Beware the military-industrial complex." We have that. the US spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined to make wealthy men wealthier - over one trillion dollars, which includes about 270 billion in cost overruns. These wars were unnecessary for the most part, especially the present one. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP!!! -
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