Gary Varvel for May 30, 2016

And many have honored the soldiers on both sides of the Civil War.

In the American Civil War, both sides’ soldiers were Americans. Not foreign enemies, like WW2 when Hiter’s Germany (and at the beginning, Stalins’s Russia was Hitler’s Germany ally, until Hitler double-crossed Stalin and attacked Russia)….and Japan’s Emperor attacked most of the world.-Japan began invading in 1937, Italy’s Fascists also were the enemy of Freedom. -There were around 50 nations attacked and suffered invasions and killings of civilians, up to some estimates at the end of WW2 of 60 million victims, civilians and military.-Can we imagine what the “new world” would have become if the USA and the Allies lost that world war? -I believe the Allies won thanks to God’s help, just as the USA’s founding was almost derailed but with God’s help the US Independence was won.-Where are the Christian crosses in these Memorial Day cartoons? If we eliminate God’s name and deny our dependence on God’s blessings for prospering a nation,how can our nation or any nation fail to fall and become an ash heap of history?

The last thing any republican considers: the cost (in lives and tax money) of any war.

http://americanminute.com/-this is a thoughtful and relevant Memorial for today, to be read online in a short time, and hopefully to be kept in mind the whole day!-Individual graves should have a display honoring the faith of the soldier. Our American Revolution was saved at one point by a patriotic Jewish banker in America! I know of no Muslim that died fighting for our Revolution, or of any war before the 1979 Jihad War was begun, undeclared by any state government but a War in reality. Any Muslim who fights for the USA deserves a display on his gravestone also.-But this nation was not founded by Jews and it was not founded by Muslims. Our history is clear and easily understandable, that our Founding was Christian and our system of Law was based on the Judeo-Christian Bible Law.Sharia Law is the total OPPOSITE of Judeo-Christian Law.It is the opposite of Freedom and Individual Choice and Liberty as America and Israel were founded upon. Islam was warring against America in the days of President Jefferson!Islam has warred against Israel and Jews since it began.Please stick to facts and truth, and don’t try to propagandize Americans on this forum. History, as originally written, is the standard for truth versus revised propaganda.

Our flag is appropriate for all Americans; religious symbols are not. Once you recognize a religion – state approved – the door is open to any cult and their symbols.Keep the flag we ALL pledge allegiance to.

With over 150 of my friends listed on “The WALL”, every Memorial Day is a hard one for me. My son, also a disabled vet with 13 years in the Navy, the “ground Navy”, never having served on a ship, but with over five years attached to SecOps, his losses are barely recognized, in part because what they did remains “classified”.

The large number of PTSD cases stemming from ’Nam and our more recent conflicts based on lies and stupidity, are the “walking wounded” created in large part by the hypocrisy of our Congresses and profiteers in our nation who have been chickenhawks, out for profit, not patriotism.

BTW: the majority of our leading “founding fathers” we’re deists, not “Christians”. The early Christian arrivals btw set out with their guns, and warriors, from Hispanola to Plymouth Rock and Jamestown, and St. Petersburg, to kill off all the natives they found, and steal their land; not exactly “Christian” by Jesus’ standards.

narrowminded: I served with Australian and Korean troops in ’Nam. Brits and Canadians did pretty good work in Iraq. Going back in history, we might look at the horror the ANZAC troops suffered at Galipoli in support of us in WW I.

I agree with the agreement to “well said”.

It is a rare occasion that I post here, but with this one I feel the need to voice my concerns: when I held up my right hand in 1958 and took the oath of enlistment, the officer administering the oath never said one word about Democrats stand on one side and the Republicans on the other …

We were all considered AMERICANS, not politically biased idiots.

I have continued to live my life in a way that reflects “American” values, not having to hate (yes I said hate) people for exhibiting differing political ideas..!

I can appreciate the meaning of this cartoon without making it a conduit for party bashing………..

My opinion: looking at those all parties who are supposed to be providing our republic with governance, I ask, which one of them has done anything for We-The-People (in recent history)..?

Thanks for listening.

vnv943 = Vietnam Veteran, Master Chief Petty Officer (E-9); Chief Warrant Officer (W-4); Lieutenant (O-3), United States Navy (Retired)

Can you cite an example of a liberal saying we should add fallen enemy soldiers to Memorial day? or where your source is?

The enmity we now see between muslims and jews only started after the founding of modern Israel in Palestine.Shows how ignorant I am. I thought there was anti-Jew stuff in the Koran.

Geezer: Mohammed did have a little problem in later phases with the Jewish merchants who initially worked with him, then later screwed him over.

Mohammed did have a little problem in later phases with the Jewish merchants ….Perhaps I am not as ignorant as I thought. There was anti-Jew stuff in the Koran?

I have not read the Koran ….I have neither read the Koran nor witnessed the persecution of Jews in Europe. All I “know” about either is what others have reported. I gather from those reports that the enmity between Muslims and Jews has existed since long before 1948.