It’s Memorial Day Weekend, when we honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country, and we have to deal with clowns who tell us that we’re not celebrating the holiday correctly. “Oh, Memorial Day is for the fallen and Veteran’s Day is for the living, get it right you knuckle dragger,” I’ve heard people say to me. To them I say, as long as you remember our military in one form or another, don’t be a clown about it.
Another thing to not be a clown about … enjoying the wrapup of the bloggers and photographers and essayists who make up my personal blogroll. Enjoy.
And we do have a couple of things to celebrate – Audley Stephenson’s “Best Audacious Life” podcast has reached 300 episodes; and Thomas Slatin and Amelia Desertsong have just reached their three-year wedding anniversary. Congrats to all!
- BLOGS FOR TRAVEL
- The Saratoga Woods and Waterways blog, “The Swampy Part of Bog Meadow Brook Trail.“
- BLOGS FOR HISTORY
- Amelia Desertsong in the “Obscure Curiosities” portal, “Baseball Cards Worth Money: 1990 Leaf Frank Thomas Rookie Card.“
- BLOGS FOR THE IMAGE
- The Bedlam Farm Journal blog, “Flower Art, Dreams and Emotions, Spider Bites, and Today, a Bee Sting. Is my Karma Off Kilter?“
- Marc Beebe’s “Wandering Words,” “Monday Misery.“
- The Cawston Greenway blog, “Flower Moon.“
- The Resurrected Camera blog, “The land holds the ocean.“
- Tim Jeffers’ “Vintage Lens,” “Memorial Day Weekend.“
- BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN
- G. Jack Urso’s “Aeolus 13 Umbra” blog, “National Geographic: The Violent Earth (1973).“
- The WritergurlNY blog, “X-Men: First Class (2011).“
- The B&S About Movies blog, “Mongo’s Back in Town (1971).“
- BLOGS FOR THE EARS
- Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with Roger,” “Harlem Hit Parade of 1944.“
- J. Eric Smith’s blog, “Dead > Sphere.“
- Jacob Gilbert’s “The Land of Whatever,” “Musical Interlude: Sinner Man (1966).“
- BLOGS FOR THE WORD
- Richard Lakin’s blog, “Short Story Accepted.“
- BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE
- Audley Stephenson’s “Best Audacious Life” blog, “Not Here to Live Average, featuring Markus Kaulius.“
- BLOGS IN MEMORIAM
- Jerry Papandrea’s “DerryX” blog, “I stopped eating McDonald’s after this.“
- BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE
- Silvia Lily’s “DelSo” blog, “Breaking (some of) the rules.“
- Thomas Slatin’s blog, “A Storm on the Horizon.“
- Hoke’s Jukebox, “Went to the Dentist, What’s so Musical About That?“
- Alan Ilagan’s blog, “Social Media Apathy.“
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Chuck The Writer 
For those who have never cracked open a history book, Memorial Day (which originated in NY as I’m sure you know) commemorates the return of soldiers from American Civil War whereas Veterans’ Day (known as Armistice Day in other parts of the world) commemorates the ending of World War I. Neither is about ‘celebrating war’ nor are they divided into honouring exclusively living/dead soldiers. (Despite this being factual I’m sure someone will feel the need to argue about it because people like showing off how ignorant they are.) And yes I can tell you stories.
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