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Memorial Day
By Riverboat in Flotsam and Jetsam
June 1, 2010

Going home.

Homer sang of the exploits of gods and Greeks, but the saga that we all read and understood from our school days is the one of Odysseus trying to go home. All the trials he had to face were taken literally, but are now taken as metaphor.

On Memorial Day we honor the soldiers who went to war because their country called them. They were drafted, or they volunteered, or they signed up. However they ended up in uniform, they went. For the young soldier in the battlefield, going home means outfacing the Well-Greaved Aechaeans at Troy so he can go back to his beloved wife and children. Some don't make it. But they are going home, too. Please God be merciful to them.

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