Memorial Day Madness. Have Americans forgotten the meaning behind this holiday?

Rush!  Hurry!  Drive!  Crap I forgot the hot dogs for the grill!  Memorial Day madness!  We are all so busy preparing for this holiday and to enjoy the day off of work with family.  So many things to remember and so little time to prepare for all the fun.

Enjoy these family times, but do not forget to properly honor those who gave their life for the freedoms we enjoy.  Thank those who are currently serving to protect our freedoms. 

If you are cooking on the grill for a large family like mine, you will most likely wipe your brow a few times from the intense heat coming off of your Weber.  That heat is nothing compared to what our soldiers are subjected to everyday in Iraq and Afghanistan.  While you sit on your chair complaining to other family members about how much of an a$$ your boss is, remember that our soldiers did not get the day off and some of them may indeed die on this day.

I am not trying to rain on any parade!  Please just remember the meaning of Memorial Day and why we observe it.  The video below is one of Canadian forces fighting the Taliban.  Whether American, Canadian or UK so many of these soldiers serve their country for the freedoms we enjoy daily.

Quite different from our Memorial Day huh?

When troops are lucky enough to come home alive, many must face a different type of hell.

They come home to the hell of finding out they lost custody of their children to a spouse seeking a divorce.  They also come home to the hell of the child support enforcement racket!  Many of our reservists must leave a higher paying civilian job and lose a significant portion of their income when they leave for Iraq or other overseas deployments.  Most receive no downward reduction in their child support orders to accommodate for their reduced income as reservists.  They return home to arrears on their child support and threats of jail!  This is wrong!  Our troops deserve much better treatment and there should be some form of automatic safeguard for situations like these.  The fact that this is allowed to happen is an outrage.

We have long reported how states and family court systems PROFIT via child support orders and Title IV-D federal incentives.  So...do you think they give our troops/reservists a break or reduction?

Phyllis Schlafly's  "The Price Some Reservists Have To Pay" should get your blood boiling faster than your Weber Genesis Silver Propane Grill.

Another disturbing trend for those troops who come home to a child custody battle during a divorce!  According to the so called "Best Interest Factors" the soldier would lose child custody because of the child being with the other parent for an extended period of time, while the other was off fighting for our country and the freedoms we enjoy!

A child never forgets the love and comfort of a parent who goes off to war.

Never forget what our troops face!

NEVER NEVER FORGET TO HONOR THOSE WHO SERVE AND THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN!

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Comments

[Wild Thing]

Hi, great post, thank you for the link, I came right over.
Thanks for all you do.

[yankeemom]

Yes, thanks for the heads up here.
A couple of the soldiers I was supporting last year went through the custody thing while in the sandbox. It just broke my heart. Fortunately, it worked out for them (with some help stateside) and they did not lose custody.
Thank you for posting on this. So many people don't know what our soldiers and reserves are up against. it's time they did.