Does anyone else feel uncomfortable with the jingoism [View All]

[Critters2]

and nationalism at Memorial Day events? I went to one, and was just sick at the end. No question as to the ethics of war in general or the current war in particular. No suggestion that we should be working for a time when no one dies in wars again. Just red, white and blue mania. It didn't even feel sad, which is how a memorial should feel. Just flag-waving fervor.

I found the whole thing unsatisfying, disappointing. Even disrespectful of those who had died, in some odd way. Can't even explain that, but it just didn't seem to take their deaths seriously.

Which, in turn, did make me sad.

Critters,
pondering