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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is my America. It is children like you, Paramvir.
Note the name in the second picture. Paramvir Saini. Obviously I do not know his history. I assume his parents were immigrants, perhaps he was an immigrant himself or american born. Not that any of that matters. What that tells me is this small child has more pride in our flag and memorializing those we lost than the 'Resident of the UNITED STATES OF ALL AMERICA!
Donnie on Memorial Day went to a foreign country to praise DICK-tators and trash America. Whoa. Read that sentence again.
This is the 'type' of child that donnie wants to cage and toss his parents out of the country for being drug dealers, rapists, murderers, thugs and terrorists. Ya see, they just aren't white enough for donnie and his base. Fact is the racists/ supremacist's are the terrorists that are murdering the children one by one as they cage them. They are terrorists as they rip the children away from their parent. They are the rapist of women taking their choice away, the most intimate and heartbreaking choice a woman has ever had to make. The drug trump and admin are dealing is whiter than cocaine and more hallucinogenic. White supremacy, a heady drug to his base. White Power.
They are terrified because the census is tipping and they will in a few years be the minority and they will do whatever they can to make it so. MAGA.
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Photos: 37,000 Flags On Boston Common Honor Fallen Mass. Veterans
More than 37,000 American flags are now on the Boston Common an annual tribute to fallen military service members.
Each flag represents a Massachusetts resident who has died in military service since the Revolutionary War.
This is the 10th year that volunteers have planted the flag garden that goes up before every Memorial Day weekend.
Six-year-old Raegan Wilcox plants an American flag. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
With the help of Kathy Sherman, holding the flags in the background, Paramvir Saini sticks an American flag into the ground. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
More:https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/05/22/military-heroes-american-flags
Edit to add:
Meaning of Sikh Name
Paramvir
Param means Supreme, vir means Warrior. Paramvir means Supreme Warrior.
http://www.realsikhism.com/index.php?action=namemeaning&nameid=452&sikhname=Paramvir
Beautiful child.
Cha
(298,139 posts)Boston to our Fallen
lunatica
(53,410 posts)That Time cover just rips my heart out. Crying and scared children does that to me. I just want to scoop her up and rock her and tell her everything is OK.
mcar
(42,478 posts)every day on my way home from work.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,038 posts)fallen military in the Civil War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers_and_Sailors_Monument_(Boston)
panfluteman
(2,075 posts)I knew enough Hindi / Sanskrit to know that Paramvir means Supreme Hero, or Supreme Warrior, and was just going to add that to the dialogue. It is indeed interesting and ironic, isn't it? Definitely, Parmvir is more of a hero or warrior than our draft dodging president.
sheshe2
(84,101 posts)'Resident bone spurs vilified all Americans today on this Memorial Day. A day all of us remember our dead that served this country with honor. He embraced a dictator from a country we fought against.
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stats:
Casualties and losses
Total: 178,405 dead and 32,925 missing
Total wounded: 566,434
Details[hide]
South Korea:[17]
137,899 dead
450,742 wounded
24,495 MIA
8,343 POW
United States:
36,574 dead[23]
103,284 wounded[23]
7,926 MIA[24]
4,714 POW[25]
United Kingdom:
1,109 dead[26]
2,674 wounded[26]
179 MIA[17]
977 POW[17]
Turkey:[17]
741 dead
2,068 wounded
163 MIA
244 POW
Canada:
516 dead[27]
1,042 wounded[28]
1 MIA[17]
33 POW[29]
Australia:[30]
339 dead
1,216 wounded
43 MIA
26 POW
France:[17]
262 dead
1,008 wounded
7 MIA
12 POW
Greece[17]
192 dead
543 wounded
3 POW
Colombia:[17]
163 dead
448 wounded
28 POW
Thailand:[17]
129 dead
1,139 wounded
5 MIA
Ethiopia[17]
121 dead
536 wounded
Netherlands:[17]
122 dead
645 wounded
3 MIA
Belgium:[17]
101 dead
478 wounded
5 MIA
1 POW
Philippines:[31]
92 dead
299 wounded
97 MIA/POW
Japan:[3]
79 dead
South Africa:[17]
34 dead
9 POW
New Zealand:[31]
34 dead
299 wounded
1 MIA/POW
Norway:[17]
3 dead
Luxembourg:[17]
2 dead
13 wounded
India:[32]
1 dead
Total: 398,000533,000 dead and 145,000+ missing
Total wounded: 686,500
Details[hide]
North Korea:
215,000350,000 dead[33]
303,000 wounded
120,000 MIA or POW[34]
China:
(Chinese sources):[35]
183,108 dead[36]
383,500 wounded
450,000 hospitalized
25,621 missing (Those who defected or were captured were included in missing)
7,110 captured
14,190 defected
(U.S. estimates):[34]
400,000+ dead
486,000 wounded
Soviet Union:
299 dead
335 planes lost[37]
Total civilians killed/wounded: 2.5 million (est.)[17]
South Korea: 990,968 killed/wounded
373,599 killed[17]
229,625 wounded[17]
387,744 abducted/missing[17]
North Korea: 1,550,000 killed/wounded (est.)[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
murielm99
(30,790 posts)This is a beautiful post.
brer cat
(24,673 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Very moving.