Comments on: Memorial Day 2006 http://jonathanmurray.com/wp2/2006/05/28/memorial-day-2006/ News, comment, attitude Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:51:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jonathan http://jonathanmurray.com/wp2/2006/05/28/memorial-day-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Jonathan Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:31:42 +0000 http://jonathanmurray.com/wp2/2006/05/28/memorial-day-2006/#comment-230 And therein lays the problem... do you know why Memorial Day is celebrated? http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html On the other hand, if you're not familiar with the ceremony of a military funeral, you're forgiven. That's what the image represents, the flag that draped the coffin of a servicemember behing presented to the wife, with a child reaching out as well. Presumably the child's hand is a reminder of what is left behind. And therein lays the problem… do you know why Memorial Day is celebrated?

http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html

On the other hand, if you’re not familiar with the ceremony of a military funeral, you’re forgiven. That’s what the image represents, the flag that draped the coffin of a servicemember behing presented to the wife, with a child reaching out as well. Presumably the child’s hand is a reminder of what is left behind.

]]> By: Blake http://jonathanmurray.com/wp2/2006/05/28/memorial-day-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Blake Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:37:19 +0000 http://jonathanmurray.com/wp2/2006/05/28/memorial-day-2006/#comment-229 I don't think I understand what this cartoon is trying to communicate. Maybe I'm just missing something obvious, trying to read into it too much... :blush: I don’t think I understand what this cartoon is trying to communicate. Maybe I’m just missing something obvious, trying to read into it too much… :blush:

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