DEAD BODIES, DECEPTION AND HONOR

By Marilyn M. Barnewall
May 29, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

Members of the military snapped to attention and saluted as they pushed my stepfather’s flag-covered body down the hallways to the morgue of the local Veteran’s Administration Hospital. His sacrifices for his country ended on March 23, 2011.

Chester Roy Brown (later changed to Roy Chester Brown) was his name and he was born January 5, 1920. Roy’s early years were spent in a Denver orphanage. He enlisted in the Army and was wounded in flight as a bombardier gunner over Europe. He loved his country. Roy’s burial was with military honors. Local veteran volunteers made sure the appropriate flags were waving softly in the breeze and that a 21-gun salute rang out over my peaceful Grand Valley that day. He would have been proud. I certainly was.

My annual Memorial Day article last year began by talking about how President Barack Obama went to Europe just before Memorial Day (2009) and apologized for America being American – and upset a lot of us. The history of Memorial Day is in that article and you can find it here. http://www.newswithviews.com/Barnewall/marilyn138.htm

On Memorial Day 2009, I wrote an article for European friends – about Obama apologizing for his country. At the time, I wanted to clarify how Americans feel about our nation (since the man elected to the Presidency seems unable). You can find that article here. http://www.newswithviews.com/Barnewall/marilyn106.htm

As I write this 2011 Memorial Day article, our President has just made an utter fool of himself (and embarrassed our country) while toasting – or, perhaps better said, attempting to toast – the Queen of England. Everyone stood and he began talking – and when “God Save the Queen,â€