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Apparently, DFO is taking this whole vacation thing seriously. He didn’t even leave a Wild Card for today! So here’s one for those who are indoors or can figure out how to combine blogging with lake activities and barbecuing. We visited my Dad’s grave at Fairmont Memorial Park yesterday. The view from the bluff is spectacular and the acres of flags never fail to move me.
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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spokelooneh on May 25 at 11:41 a.m.
Remember and honor the fallen.
Stickman on May 25 at 12:53 p.m.
I went to the early ceremony at the end of Third street this morning and it was very moving indeed. Hopefully we always remember our fallen heroes who gave so much so we remain free.
HonestGeorge on May 25 at 9:24 p.m.
Every day of this 3 day weekend I flew the American Flag. After 55 years as a member of the VFW and 33 years in the military it was a natural thing to do - not an effort, not an ‘affected’ action - just a thing that always felt right to do because it causes me to focus on the hardships and sacrifice that I’ve seen my fellow Americans give. I want the local soldier’s wife to know that I’m aware of the cost of her husband’s service in Iraq or Afghanistan. I want the fellow raised without a father because he was killed in VietNam - I want him to know that his dad isn’t forgotten.
My wife and I traveled around Lewiston doing various weekend things and I was really taken aback in that I saw one other flag displayed - attached to a camper at our fairgrounds. One flag. One flag from a community and state that had an apoletic fit when Obama didn’t wear a flag pin during some appearance or other. What is it with us and the flag? Why is it important to display it at various times and to honor it in various ways? We each should answer that ourselves but it appears that much of our patriotism is a mile wide and an inch deep. I really don’t know if it DOES matter anymore to anyone else, except that I feel something important is slipping away.
Lynne on May 26 at 7:58 a.m.
I, too, was dismayed at the lack of flags displayed as I meandered through the neighborhood this weekend.
Arch_Druid on May 26 at 8:06 a.m.
I put the flag out around 11 am Memorial Day morning. I also had a “Patriotic Garden” mini flag that I put out. PBS had a real good show on the graves of the fallen from World War 1 to World War 2. It was a particularly moving show. Of course dad made it back from World War 2, but when he died, he was cremated and his ashes tossed off Canfield mountain.