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The First Memorial Day

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The Controversial First Memorial Day!

Today, I thought I’d share with you a little American history!

Honestly, at the time this took place it was fairly controversial and even today there is debate over the origins of Memorial Day.

However, in my opinion, and according to the earliest date that this event took place; I’d like to submit this event as the first! May 1st, 1865, down In Charleston, South Carolina, a couple of hundred residents (mostly made up of black freed slaves), initiated the event.

Martyrs of The Race Track

A short time earlier they realized there was a mass grave at an old race track that was converted to a Confederate operated POW camp. In the grave were 257 bodies, (I misquoted in the video) of Union soldiers. Most of the men died from malnutrition and disease.

Anyway, the residents decided to give proper burial and individual grave site to all of these unfortunate souls. They called the site “Martyrs of the Race Track”, But, it didn’t stop there…

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Martyrs of the RaceTrack, Charleston, South Carolina.

What happened on that day was unprecedented! They organized a parade and a celebration deck consisted of over 10,000 people according to the New York Times.

A Memorial Day Celebration of 10,000

It was recorded that over 30 speeches were given by local government officials, three sermons were delivered by black and white ministers alike, prayer was led, songs were song and over 3000 children marched around the racetrack throwing flowers and singing songs of patriotism.

They even brought in three regiments of US soldiers made up of black and white troops Who also marched around the race track. It was recorded that there were so many flowers delivered to the cemetery that they were seen as heaps and mounds of flowers in the aroma of those flowers swept across the entire graveyard what is undeniably fragrant which brought people to tears of joy.

The Heart of America I Know

That is the America that I want to remember; that is the America that we need to promote today. And America of unity, respect, honor and dignity of life. No matter the color or creed of the individual for the uniform they wore at the end of the day they showed respect to each other to both the living and the dead.

Let’s remember on this memorial day as we celebrate our freedoms for the sacrifices that were made by so many, to give us the liberties we take so freely.

May God bless you in this great country and may he continue to keep His hand upon us. Stay True, America… We need You!

Stephen D. Powell

The GunLife Coach

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Stephen D. Powell is an Air Force veteran with more than 18 years of combined federal, military & civilian law enforcement experience. Powell has been teaching professionally for over 25+years as a firearms Instructor for numerous organizations and agencies rated with the NRA, NM & TX DPS and a Sig Sauer Academy Master Instructor. His company, Patriot Outdoors, Inc, has been operational in the defensive training industry since 2004, starting a thousand acre training facility located in Eastern New Mexico. Patriot has provided crucial and relevant firearms training to DOD and SOCOM, state and local law enforcement and armed citizen students. Over the past several years, Powell has appeared on several Fox News, Sirius XM radio, various regional newspaper, radio and tv shows, promoting military veteran entrepreneurship and patriotism as well as educating the shooting industry on range development, media relations and key second amendment issues. Patriot Outdoors is currently operating out of the Phoenix Valley, Arizona and with a new channel of The GunLife Coach to inspire and motivate other in life and on the range!



 
 
 

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Eight Dysphemisms to Start Your Week

A dysphemism is a word or phrase that is more offensive than the words it is replacing

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A “euphemism” is the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that might suggest something more bluntly or offend others, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. To say, for example, “He doesn’t have all his marbles,” is regarded as gentler than saying “He is stark raving insane.”

The Mighty Dysphemism

The opposite of a euphemism is a “dysphemism.” A dysphemism is a word or phrase that is more offensive, blunt, or harsh than the word or phrase which it is replacing. For example, instead of stating that the Manhattan District Attorney is “cognitively challenged,” you refer to him instead as a “total partisan whack job.”

For your amusement, at the least, here are eight dysphemism followed by the kinder, gentler, or at least more definitive terminology of what is being said:

“Biting off more than you can chew” – Orally extracting an amount of edible matter that exceeds what one is comfortably able to masticate.

“That’s a load of B.S.” – Your assertion reminds one of bovine excretion.

“Sh__faced” – Bearing an expression that one normally associates with the act of removing solid waste from the body.

“Can’t tell your ass from your elbow” – Unable to differentiate between your dorsal side orifice and the joint connecting your forearm and upper arm.

“Stepping in a pile of crap” – A pedestrian venture into an accumulation of animal or human waste.

“Go F-yourself” – Engage in the act of physical consummation with yourself.

“Up to your eyeballs in crap” – Finding yourself surrounded at the visual level by unpleasantly aromatic organic waste.

“Carnal knowledge” – Having a close encounter with another, free of garments and other impediments, leading to direct tactile stimulation.

A True Time Saver

Thank goodness for dysphemisms. In a most fundamental way, they are true time-savers. Without them, we’d be groping for tedious phrasing all day long. “Up your nose with a rubber hose,” if you don’t “catch my drift.”

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Nobody Gets Enough Rest

Few adults sleep each night for all that they need

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Here is my creation, Nobody Gets Enough Rest, based on the theme of Nobody Does It Better, original music by Marvin Hamlisch, with lyrics by Carol Bayer Sager, and sung by Carly Simon:

Nobody Gets Enough Rest
by Jeff Davidson © 2023

Nobody gets enough rest,
no one gets all that they need.
Too many people gyp their sleep time:
When it comes to rest… they’re in neeeeeed…

I wasn’t looking
but somehow they found me,
all of the things that lengthen my day aaaaaaaaay.
Like the TV above me
and the friends who love me,
up all night so we can play aaaaaaaaay.

Nobody gets enough rest,
no one gets all that they need.
Nobody takes enough naps, aaaand
sure enough, we’re all in nee ee ee eeed.

Nobody gets enough rest,
no one sleeps all that they need.
Yet people come to work like its
some kind of brea ee ee ee ee eeze.

The way that it’s going, all day-long going
there’s got to be some kind of pau au au au ause,
That keeps us from running,
all 24 hours, disobeying nature’s basic law aw aw aw aw.

Nobody gets enough rest,
no one gets all that they need.
Too many people gyp their sleep time:
When it comes to rest… they’re in nee ee eed…

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