MEMORIAL DAY

I love Holidays! People gather together to celebrate. They appreciate each other and the warmth of their love raises the vibration of the planet. We need more occasions to get together and celebrate.

When I was a child we went to a graveyard on Memorial Day [also known as Decoration Day]. My grandparents and parents would tend the graves and plant flowers. The children would scamper about, playing with each other and occasionally read the gravestones and wonder about the mystery that death and a graveyard seemed to be. It wasn't a somber time. There didn't appear to be any sadness. There was remembering and a celebration of the lives that were. We would have a picnic. I don't remember if there was a specific picnic area or if we just spread a cloth among the stones.

I don't want to rain on anybody's parade but I am sometimes troubled by the feeling of some of these memorial celebrations. Sometimes there is a whisper of honoring war, along with the dead. Sometimes it is more than a whisper and can be uber-chauvinism. We are not honoring the dead when we are denying the truth. We need to face the truth.

When we love somebody who is using denial to avoid the truth, and perhaps being self-destructive, we try to confront them with what they don't want to see. We want to be as gentle and loving as possible. Perhaps, we may gather a group of their closest friends to support them as they are opening up to what they don't want to see. 

We honor truth and know people need to see the truth. We can honor our dead without championing the cause of their death. Those who died may be honorable indeed. Their cause may have been less than honorable.

We don't want to face the idea that our precious children were put in harms way, not to protect our freedom, but to protect the freedom of corporations and the elite they represent. Freedom to continue to exploit us and keep us in virtual slavery.

Yes, we need to honor our dead without honoring the wars they were in. The idea of a just war is the height of denial and the result of very successful propaganda. We won't be manipulated into any more major wars and soon even minor skirmishes will come to an end. We won't do it. We just won't have it. All, are our brothers and sisters. All, are fellow loving beings. We will not let an elite poison our minds about other folks. We will not kill so they can be enriched.

So on this beautiful Memorial Day. Remember our loved ones who have died in battle. Love them intensely. In a greater sense, they did die for us. They died so we could see the truth and the horror of war.

Let us gather together in celebration. Remember all who have gone before us with gratitude. Let us love and appreciate each other. Let us celebrate that there will be no more war. Our love is too intense. War is no longer possible.

Love and Peace,  Gregg