May 25, 2020

Today is Memorial day.  The US of A honors those soldiers killed in service to the country on this day.  Hubby's uncle was in the service in WWI.  He died not in action but in a hospital from the Spanish Flu pandemic. As many photos as I have scanned there are none of that 18 year man child. 

Hubby's mom always spoke fondly of him.  How she adored him.  She was only 4 when he left for the service.  His mother had died and MIL was the first child from the second wife.  The document to the right hangs in our living room.  It is from France thanking the soldiers of the US for helping gain their freedom. 

As for memorials and remembering the fallen, the nations of the militaries of the world do that.  I can think of all the innocents killed during wars and hate champagnes.  A family sitting at table, asleep in their beds or just visiting a beach in Nice, France.  To be slain for one person's need for power or glory.  For a group of like minded people that think they are superior and should rule the world.  Or kill all who are not to the standards set by that group. 

Many folks minds may jump to Nazis.  They were neither the first nor, unfortunately, the last to kill the "others".   On the Military History Now website it is noted there are records on carved stone having military battles circa 2500 BCE.  Even further back is speculated between city/states.  What is it in we humans that we want to kill or subjugate other humans? 

On this Memorial Day Covid 19 continues to ravage its way around world.   Much like the flu outbreak in the 1916-1920 once ravaged the world.  I honor the memory of Uncle Harold.  But even more, I pray to the universe, to the Creator that scientists can find that bit if DNA that causes humans to kill humans.  Find it and destroy that DNA.

Peace,
Janice