There is no "Happy" in Memorial Day. [View all]

[Stinky The Clown]

Memorial Day is about people who gave their lives fighting in America's wars. I also find it an appropriate time to remember the "walking dead" who are homeless and troubled, even as they have survived the battles.

My generation's war was Vietnam. To this day the overwhelming majority of troubled homeless vets are vets of that war. That they remain troubled is a national shame. Some small number of them, arguably, may have been better off with their name on The Wall instead of on a list held by the VA someplace.



There is no "Happy" in Memorial Day.

I wish the survivors of those who have died all the peace possible. To the survivors who continue to suffer I wish them peace, too. All these years later, we don't even know where some of them are, living ghosts, continuing to somehow survive.

There is no "Happy" in Memorial Day.

Only the unknowing use that term. Those who use the term likely mean well. That they do doesn't anger me. Instead it makes me sad.

There is no "Happy" in Memorial Day.