The annual Memorial Day display of crosses by the local Northern Michigan Chapter #50 of Veterans for Peace. Today, there were 186 crosses displayed to honor the fallen soldiers in current wars that called Michigan home. This is one of several memorials organized around the nation by Veterans for Peace.
This display will be up until 6PM.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
~ Maya Angelou
And, a 2-for-1 for Memorial Day, looking back at Wendell Berry’s “The Failure of War.“
I think we must be careful about too easily accepting, or being too easily grateful for, sacrifices made by others, especially if we have made none ourselves.
~ Wendell Berry
The essay poignantly connects the ‘externalizations’ of war and modern life in general. We have acquiesced so much of our human and natural wealth to be “acceptable losses” as if there is no other way.
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