Memorial Day

[Kapohocat]

One of the most beautiful places today is the Veteran's Cemetery off Haili st in Hilo. The flowers are incredible and the view is awesome.

And take a few minutes to read some of the names of the men and woman who are buried there.

Something for both sides of the fence:

"The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes." - Michael Moore

"Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things." - ROnald Reagan

[LeeE]

Great post.

I was once talking with a military doctor on Oahu, right about the time the Cheney/Shrub Administration were pumping the public with false information regarding Iraq, in order to deceive them into the neocon, "wars, which will last for generations".

I mentioned to him that the only real friends the military personnel had, were the military docs and the protesters, demanding that we not launch wars of occupation against middle east nations.

He said that because of his job, he couldn't officially agree with me, but, that in fact, he did.

Your post is a call for moral courage and intellectual honesty.

Well stated.

Lee Eisenstein
http://members.cruzio.com/~lionel/event

"Be kinder than necessary, as everyone you meet is engaged in some kind of strudel."

[punaticbychoice]

Just a brief observation:
The Constitution of the United States is the United States.
Some people who have taken the oath to protect defend and uphold the US Constitution seem to blithely ignore that oath, and the sometimes concurrent oaths taken to State Constitutions such as Hawaii's.
When one utilizes their rights and responsibilities, they are upholding the Constitution in a very real sense.
You don't have to be in the military to defend protect and uphold the Constitution.