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Memorial Day May 27, 2019 Entry

Kamál (Perfection), 11 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur) 176 B.E. - Monday, May 27, 2019

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PROMPT: Today is Memorial Day here in the US, a federal holiday for remembering and honoring persons who have died while serving in the Armed Forces. How do you honor those who have passed (whether they served in the military or not)?

I believe the best way to honor those who have passed is to say a prayer for the progress of their souls. Death is not the end, it only separates the soul from the body. After the separation, the soul ascends into the spiritual world where it will progress toward the Unknowable Creator. Saying a prayer for the progress of the soul of the departed helps that person's soul advance in the spiritual world. It also, I suspect, helps heal the wounds inflected upon the soul during its sojourn with the physical plane.

A Soul Speaks
From the Spiritual Dimension

Please pray for me,
ask the All-Glorious Creator,
to show mercy
rather than justice
and forgive my sins.

A few days ago, I made an entry in "Writing in Snow"  titled "Prayer fo the Departed, Memorial Day Thoughts, etc." . I made the entry after reading the article No Bad Guys on Memorial Day   by David Langness, who was a combat medic in Vietnam. On Memorial Day, and any other time of year, we focus so much on honoring those killed in war, t hat we don't consider what war did to soldiers who returned alive. Indeed, we don't even consider what war did to the souls of those who died, who paid the price of freedom.

How can we honor those who gave their lives in war? We can do more than just pause at 3:00 pm today for a moment of silence. A moment of silence, unless accompanies by a prayer, doesn't help those who died in combat. Putting flowers and flags on their tombstones doesn't help them either, but it makes us feel better. We can honor the departed soldiers by helping their buddies who returned with physical, mental, and spiritual wounds from combat. We can help by asking "What we can I do for you?" instead of just choosing to something that makes us comfortable.