Memorial Day 2017
* This is an older, pre-Jesus post about Memorial day. This is still something a struggle quite a bit with. The commercialization of this holiday is not easy for me to handle at times. Anyways I thought this was a pretty low profanity post so I thought I would repost. Enjoy!* I made it thru at least half the month before I saw the first commercial. Big huge letters and bright patriotic backgrounds telling me what a bundle I can save on Memorial Day weekend. But let me start from the beginning. I dislike May. Maybe one of the few nice things my Iraqi vacation did for me was mash the most shittiest of my experiences into to one approximate 40 day period, starting in May and ending after the first 10 days of June. I don't know if giving pauses in between each thing would have helped or not, so I will choose to look on the positive side and say at least it all kind of happened at once. For one, the riots were unending, the detainees knew that soon it would be too hot for them to r...