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Weekend Plans For Memorial Day Weekend

Jalál (Glory), 9 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur) 176 B.E. - Saturday, May 25, 2019

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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 and Taps" 

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.

"Memorial Day Weekend" 

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!