OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD: Goodbye!

Bin Laden Is Dead! Bin Laden Is Dead! Bin Laden Is Dead! Goodbye!

Can't repeat that sentiment often enough.

Fox News is reporting that Bin Laden was killed a week ago by a US missile. If true, we have our military to thank.The military has Bin Laden's body.

Mark my words. The delayed timing of this news may explain Obama's decision this week to move Gen. Petraeus to the CIA and Leon Panetta to the Department of Defense. With Bin Laden dead, perhaps our naive president will attempt to claim that America's war with radical Islamists is over. If Obama does, Panetta is likely to attempt to drastically cut the military. I suspect Petraeus would argue against such a decision, knowing full well that the war will continue without Bin Laden's direct influence.

[Update:  Obama has finally gone on camera (1 hour late) to make the announcement. Wait a minute!  Obama said Bin Laden was killed TODAY. This doesn't jive with other media reports. No video re-runs ready yet to transcribe Obama's remarks.]

Memorial Day History

By USMemorialDay.org

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies
--Moina Michael, In Flanders Fields

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service.  There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day.  There is also evidence that organized women's groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War:  a hymn published in 1867, "Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping" (Source:  Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920).  While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966, it's difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day.  It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860s tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen. Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868.  It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established.  Memorial Day is not about division.  It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those gave their all.

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