How was your MEMORIAL DAY?

Ours was spent preparing for the yearly garage sale. No I didn't watch the hypocrisy of the President "laying" or was it "lying" a wreath on the tomb of the unknowns at Arlington yesterday. The only reason it still remains unknown to him is that he still follows a tradition of "great republican hawkish" officials that neither served in a war zone yet seem to "know" best for veterans and the military doing their dirty work.
Many questions still remain regarding "his" service in the Alabama Air National Guard, that service entailed the election campaign of one, Winton Blount, a republican running for Senator of Alabama. Who was later appointed to the Postmaster General position under Nixon, then just happened to buy out the US Postal service went it went from a government agency to a private business. Most Americans still don't know this piece of history regarding their postage prices, and postal delivery. They still get Government benefits, still have to have civil service appointments, but it is privately owned. Funny, huh?
I'm just too old for my own good, yet competition has been good for FedEx and UPS in the meantime. But whatever happened to the 9cent postage stamp? Why as citizens do we subsidize a private company's retirement program?

Apology for the rant. Back to Memorial day. On May 29, 1932 Walter Waters and a group of veterans arrived in Washington, DC demanding their WW I bonuses; over the next few months about 25,000 other veterans and their familes joined them.

After the group had been camped in DC for approximately one month the bill finally came to the floor, passed by the House, but rejected by the Senate. Many of the group went home except the original veterans, vowing to remain until they received justice.

President Hoover ordered the Army to drive them out of Washington. Several battalions of cavalry and tanks advanced on the shantytown of veterans tossing tear gas and setting fire to the makeshift village the veterans had established.

Over the next weeks newsreel footage of the attacks on veterans and their families by the Army, as ordered by the Hoover Administration were seen all over the nation. Resulting in a public relations disaster for the beleaguered administration. FDR reading a newspaper report about the eviction commented that this would elect him and it did.

Another example of "Compassionate Conservatism" by a Republican President. Hoover supported big bid'ness, supported tax cuts for the wealthy, despised the immigrants, hated progressives . . . . . it is starting to sound very familiar.

"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision." ~ Helen Keller