Remember The Men
Respect the sacrifice..jpg)
My father, Saipan ca. 1944
(click the pic)
UPDATE:
My brother tells about this picture in comments.
Labels: History, Mom And Pop
posted by K-nine @ 10:00
1 Voices Raised
Dead Dog Walkin'
"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know... How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien." - Plato
Monday, May 26, 2008
About Me
- Name: K-nine
- Location: A Small Town, North Carolina
A divorced northeastern North Carolina farmboy back in Carolina via Washington DC, a small Carribean island and Texas. Mostly self-educated I am the product of public schools, a few trips to college, the school of life (& hard knocks), a WWII veteran father who could build anything, and a Sunday School teacher mother who loved to read anything she could lay her hands on. As the youngest of five I am no stranger to having to defend my actions (not to mention myself).
"Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it."
-Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
- Show Yourself
1 Comments:
The picture is from Saipan in 1944. The ditch he is digging is the grave for the thousands of Japanese who found it more noble to die for the Emperor than to surrender when they knew the couldn't win.
It is scary to think that we are once again fighting people whose greatest reward is to die for what they believe in.
We will never know the horrors they witnessed and we can only pray our children don't have to witness it because we ignore history.
your little brother
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