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Sunday, May 27, 2012

See this and then go to Veterans Day link at the bottom.

The Real Memorial Day

History

The sheer number of dead soldiers, both Union and Confederate, meant that burial and memorialization would become important following the war. People in towns, particularly women, had buried the dead and decorated graves during the war. In 1865, the federal government began a program of creating national cemeteries for the Union dead.

Following President Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, there were a variety of events of commemoration. The first known observance of a Memorial Day-type observance was in Charleston, South Carolina on May 1, 1865. During the war, Union soldiers who were prisoners of war had been held at the Charleston Race Course; at least 257 Union prisoners died there and were hastily buried in unmarked graves.

Freedmen (freed slaves) knew of the Union dead and decided to honor them. Together with teachers and missionaries, blacks in Charleston organized a May Day ceremony covered by the New York Tribune and other national papers. Years later, it came to be called the "First Decoration Day" in the North. Beforehand the freedmen had cleaned up and landscaped the burial ground, building an enclosure and an arch labeled, "Martyrs of the Race Course." Nearly ten thousand people, mostly freedmen, gathered on May 1 to commemorate the dead. Involved were 3,000 schoolchildren newly enrolled in freedmen's schools, mutual aid societies, Union troops, and black ministers and white northern missionaries. Most brought flowers to lay on the burial field. Today the site is used as Hampton Park.

The historian David W. Blight described the day:

"This was the first Memorial Day. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the War had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.”

[from wikipedia]

Originally, Memorial Day was to commemorate the Freedom that was fought for to end slavery, the just cause in Christ - "As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,"

Traditional Catholic Prayers: La plus belle nuit du monde

La plus belle nuit du monde
C'est cette nuit de noel
Où les bergers étonnés
Ont levé les yeux vers le ciel
Une étoile semble dire
«suivez-moi je vous conduis
Il est né cette nu

The most beautiful night of the world
Is that Christmas night
When shepherds surprised
Rise their eyes to the sky
A star seems to say
follow me I will lead you
He was born on this night
Glory glory alleluia
Glory glory alleluia
Glory glory alleluia, chantons chantons noël

Glory glory alleluia
Glory glory alleluia
Glory glory alleluia, let's sing sing Christmas
Sur la paille d'une étableI
ls se sont agenouillés
Les pauvres comme les princes
Au pied de l'enfant nouveau
Et ce chant comme une source
A traversé le pays
Il est né cette nuit

On the straw of a table
They kneeled down
Poors and princes as well
At the feet of the new born child
And this song like a spring
Has crossed over the country
He was born on this night
Glory glory alleluia
Glory glory alleluia
Glory glory alleluia, chantons chantons noël

Glory glory alleluia
Glory glory alleluia
Glory glory alleluia, let's sing sing Christmas
La plus belle nuit du monde
C'est cette nuit de noel
Dans le coeur de tous les homes
Un peu d'amour descend du ciel
Tant de choses nous séparent
Cette étoile nous unisIl est né cette nuit

The most beautiful night of the world
Is that Christmas night
In the heart of all men
A little bit of love comes from the sky
So many things bring us apart
This star unite us
He was born on this night
Glory glory alleluia
Glory glory alleluia
Glory glory alleluia, chantons chantons noël

Glory glory alleluia
Glory glory alleluia
Glory glory alleluia, let's sing sing christmas

He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:

This is from Isaiah 27:1 In that day God shall bring his holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent: he shall destroy the dragon.

This is about God's justice and destroying Satan and Satan's works and minions.

If we did that in the Middle East, in other words if we destroyed the ZioNazis and their false creation of IsraHell and freed the Palestinians, and I mean by military intervention the way the John F. Kennedy had planned on using against the Jews, then there would be World Peace.

Battle Hymn of the Republic - same melody as La plus belle nuit du monde

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;

He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:

His truth is marching on.

(Chorus)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,

They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;

I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:

His day is marching on.

(Chorus)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:

"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;

Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,

Since God is marching on."

(Chorus)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Since God is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;

He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:

Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!

Our God is marching on.

(Chorus)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,

With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:

As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,

While God is marching on.

(Chorus)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

While God is marching on.

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,

He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave,

So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,

Our God is marching on.

(Chorus)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Our God is marching on.

But this is what Memorial Day has become in peoples' minds - a total inversion of all that is holy to fight for and instead a false peace and capitulation to bondage -

Failsafe 1964 - the bombing of New York City by American forces - shades of 911 to come 37 years later.