Re: At Last....a repaint job....

"Harry Brogan" <hbrogan57_AT_NOSPAM_DOT_YAHOO_DOT_COM> wrote in message 
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 Dolan wrote:

>>Black is the color of despair and woe, dissolution and death. Those
POW's
>>and MIA's are all dead and have long since gone to their reward. I don't
>>understand this eternal memory stuff. Life moves on and it is for the
>>living. Let the dead bury the dead.
>
> "Those that forget the past are doomed to repeat it"  I believe
> someone once said.

It is enough to read about the past without dwelling in it.

> There are MANY Pow/Mia men and women that are still unaccounted for.
> THAT's the reason for the black flag.  It does NOT stand for woe and
> despair.

They are unaccounted for because they are dead. It is a wonder to me that 
there aren't tens of thousands who remain unaccounted for in times of war.

There are mass graves in Bosnia and Iraq where many thousands have 
disappeared and no one knows who they are. Why fly a black flag which only

serves to remind us of our barbarities? It does no good at all.

If you want to mourn the missing and the dead, go to a church and say some

prayers or wander about cemeteries contemplating headstones like I do.
Want 
some wisdom? Here it is in just 10 simple words:

"Once I wasn't, then I was, now I ain't again."

         - Epitaph found on tombstone in Ohio graveyard

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota