How Not To Spend Memorial Day
May 27th, 2006 at 4:42 pm by Preston Taylor Holmes(via the Interdictor)
There is a group of malcontents down in NOLA who have come up with a rather unique way to mark Memorial Day.
WHERE: Old Hammond Highway Bridge over the 17th Street Canal
WHEN: May 29, at 9:45 am – the moment the 17th St. Canal breached
WHY: The 30 minute ceremony will highlight the federal government’s central role in causing the metro New Orleans Flood. We will remember the 1577 men and women whose lives were lost and we will focus attention to this American Tragedy.
On this Memorial Day, we will encourage the citizens of New Orleans and South Louisiana to pay homage to the men and women here who gave their lives defending America. When the rest of the nation needed us, we were there. Now we need the rest of the nation to help rebuild New Orleans and South Louisiana.
The ceremony will cap a 7-day campaign urging citizens drape their flooded homes with a flag sending a message to the nation that we are Americans, too.
Sandy Rosenthal
Founder, Levees.Org
www.levees.org
I can think of no better way to celebrate Memorial Day than to pay homage to the thousands of dependents that Daddy Government didn’t come and save during Katrina. Let’s memorialize their complete lack of personal responsibility for their own fate.
And, by all means, take this opportunity to join Levees.Org – because when you live well below sea-level, surrounded by water, why should you be to blame for riding out the storm?
When I think of Memorial Day, I think of free big-screen TVs, truckloads of free Nikes and community covered-dish suppers at the Superdome. I’m sure you feel the same way.
May 27th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
Let’s invite Sandy Rosenthal to San Diego, California so she can make her proposal on how to celebrate Memorial Day directly to the military community here…
May 27th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
Preston,
Thanks for pointing out this opportunistic exploitation of one of our Nation’s most important holidays.
I send Sandy an email letting her know how much I appreciated her celebration of Memorial Day.
I don’t know if it is appropriate to post her email address on your site, but here it is:
sandy@levees.org
Couldn’t she have selected another holiday? Perhaps Cinco de Mayo…to symbolize the similarities between the breaching of the NOLA levees and the daily breaching of our southern border…
May 27th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
“Couldn’t she have selected another holiday? Perhaps Cinco de Mayo…to symbolize the similarities between the breaching of the NOLA levees and the daily breaching of our southern border… ”
Excellent parallel. I try to work a “breaching the levees” metaphor into every conversation these days. Much as I tried to work tsunami metaphors into everything a while back.