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Jalál (Glory), 9 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur) 176 B.E. - Saturday, May 25, 2019
PROMPT: Write about your plans for the weekend. If you had 48 hours to do whatever you wanted, no holds barred, how would you spend your time? What are my weekend plans? I have no idea. I don't have weekend plans. I have stuff I have to do, or, at least, think I have to do. Three day weekends is something I don't worry about anymore. In fact, I don't think I ever worried about them because somebody always had some sort of plans I could crash if I wanted to. I'm at the point in my life where I think three day weekends are over rated. As for this weekend, it's Memorial Day weekend so my plans are to say prayer for the departed. In Remembrance of Memorial Day ... that we are highly resolved that these dead shall not have died in vain ... Abraham Lincoln Millions of Americans died to ensure our freedom. Each war has produced its unsung heroes; Men and women quietly serving at home or abroad. One hundred twenty six years we have commemorated the heroes of war; Raising to mythical proportions the gods of war; Interring in silent tombs unmeant relatives; Acknowledging on stone wall the martyrs of war; Listening in silence to political rhetoric. Dead kinsman call to us from the world beyond, Asking that their deaths not be in vain, Yearning to see peace upon the Earth. Taps On Memorial Day Rain is supposed to fall when Taps are played on Memorial Day. The world is supposed to weep for the missing and the dead of every war fought by Americans or on American soil. Three days to heal the grief-- caused by conventional, chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons-- is not enough! Three days to celebrate a life cut short-- by missile, bayonet, bullet, shrapnel, or mines-- is not enough! |