Mother's Day In America Turns 100

Here is to wishing all the Mother's out there a Very Happy Mother's Day, and to their children~~Please celebrate your Mother while she is alive, as regret for not showing the proper respect is hard to deal with.. I know this from personal experience, as I had a rocky relationship with my Mother, which was gradually improving when she died, and there was still so much more that I would have liked to say to mend the relationship!!

This story was on Yahoo News yesterday, and thought it might be a good way to begin this Mother's Day:

On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.

Anna Jarvis would want us to give mothers a white carnation — she felt it signified the purity of a mother's love.

Jarvis, who never married and never had children, got the Mother's Day idea after her mother said it would be nice if someone created a memorial to mothers.

Three years after her mother died in 1905, she organized the first official mother's day service at a church where her mother had spent more than 20 years teaching Sunday school.

LINK TO FULL STORY

The American al-Qaeda

I recommend a viewing of the homegrown turncoat who went on a seven minute rant on vedeotape about how he and his al-Qaeda buddies were going to cause us much death and destruction if we do not give in to their demands.
If it wasn't so sad it would be funny. How can this young man a product of the United States end up hating us so much that he throws in with a bunch of cowardly thug terrorists. In the videotape he was wearing a white robe and turban as he spouted on about how if we did not leave their country we could see more horrors then September 11th, Afghanistan, Iraq and Virginia Tech and that al-Qaede would not negotiate on their demands.
I was reading that Mr. Gadahn, has been charged in a United States treason indictment with aiding al-Qaeda. In the videotape he spoke in English and the video carried Arabic subtitles. The video appeared on a Web site often used by Islamic militants and carried the logo of al-Qaeda’s media wing, as-Sahab.
Some of you might remember that Mr.Gadahn, appeared in an al-Qaeda video last September in which he called on Americans to convert to Islam, demanded that Bush remove all United States military forces and spies from Islamic countries, free all Muslims from United States prisons and end support for Israel. He said a withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq alone would not satisfy al-Qaeda.
Mr. Gadahn is a Caifornia native and he is the frst American to be charged with treason in more than 50 years and could face the death penalty if he is ever caught and convicted. He was also charged with providing material support to terrorists.
Now I guess we are supposed to see the videotape and his fair warning about what will happen if we do give into their demands.There is no way we are going to give into to these demands, so I guess we need to be more vigilant, because maybe he knows of an impending attack. Hopefully at some point United States military will get their hands around his terrorist neck and wring it.
Anyway I hope you get a chance to view it for yourself it is on many sites and see the American face of al-Qaeda. I guess we can only be thankful that they have not a very good job of recruiting in this country if there are so few turncoats. May Mr. Gadahn be allowed to meet Allah in the very near future.

8 Americans Added To Memorial Day Remembrances

This Memorial Day weekend is seeing the addition of 8 more fallen soldiers to the many being remembered at ceremonies around the nation. The figures will continue to rise as the surge and new strategy of getting out of the protected compounds and taking the fight to the insurgents escalates.
I saw General Petraeus on a news program yesterday and he acknowledged that it could be a bloody summer.
The news report included the following information about troop casualties:
Nearly a 1000 United States troop have been killed since last Memorial Day and in the period from Memorial Day 2006 through Saturday, 980 soldiers and Marines died in Iraq, compared to 807 deaths in the previous year. And with the Baghdad security operation now three and a half months old, even President Bush has predicted a difficult summer for U.S. forces.
As more American soldiers are patrolling the streets and living in isolated outposts across Baghdad, leaving them more vulnerable to attack. The increase in raids on extremist Shiite militiamen had brought a wave of retaliatory attacks.
It was further stated that by the end of Saturday at least 100 American troops had died in the first 26 days of May, an average of 3.85 deaths a day. At that deadly pace, 119 troops will have died by the end of the month, the most since 137 soldiers were killed in November 2004, when U.S. troops were fighting insurgents in Fallujah.
As of Saturday, May 26, 2007, at least 3,451 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,817 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military.
On Monday, Bush will mark his sixth Memorial Day as a wartime president with a visit to Arlington National Cemetery. He is to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns to honor those who have died in past and current conflicts.
In his weekly radio address he personalized the death of a young man from Ohio and his desire to not let his sister and brother grow up in fear. The link below will take you to the full story of Bush’s comments.
There are many moving ceremonies taking place to honor the sacrifices of those who paid the price of freedom with their lives. I hope that we demand of our politicians that these men and women did not die in vain.

Bush radio story