{"id":11255,"date":"2023-05-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=11255"},"modified":"2023-05-14T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T17:08:30","slug":"happy-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/happy-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Memorial Day!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"Happy Memorial Day!! 5\/29\/23\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=a3xup-140a36c-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=0&amp;download=0&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Garamond&amp;skin=1b1b1b&amp;font-color=ffffff&amp;logo_link=none&amp;btn-skin=3267a3\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Memory\u00a0is a tricky thing. There are some things, however, that we should never forget. One of these is the sacrifices that others have made in our behalf.<\/strong>\u00a0<br><br><em>It was a spring morning in 1866, just after the Civil War that had devastated the South. A group of Southerners did something quite extraordinary. They marched down the streets of what was left of their town to a cemetery. There they decorated the graves of the soldiers.\u00a0<strong>All the soldiers &#8212;\u00a0Union soldiers as well as Confederate soldiers.<\/strong><\/em> <strong>The mothers and daughters and widows had buried their dead. Now they buried their hatred. The time for healing had come. It was the first\u00a0Memorial\u00a0Day<\/strong>.\u00a0<br><br><em>Have you ever wondered why\u00a0Memorial\u00a0Day is marked in May? Its date doesn&#8217;t recall some historic battle. Or the start of some war. Or the signing of an armistice. Why, then, May?\u00a0<\/em><br><br><strong>For a very practical reason. Because it is a time when flowers bloom. Flowers with which to decorate graves.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to King Duncan for sharing this.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Thanks to Scott Dressel for the photo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How wonderful it would be if each one of us this Memorial Day would put our own POLITICAL HATRED to rest and bind up our nation\u2019s wounds\u2026..<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Let us think of Freedom not as the Right to do as we Please, but the Opportunity TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How is THIS Memorial Day a day for YOU to Get Rid of the political hatred YOU feel in YOUR heart and help bring our country together?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHEN YOU ARE FEELING POLITICAL HATRED TOWARD ANOTHER, TALK TO THE MAN WHO IS WEARING THE NAIL HOLES AND THE SCARS!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This Memorial Day is a great day to RE-INTRODUCE someone to&nbsp;<u>TREATSFORTHESOUL.ORG<\/u>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>And be sure to listen to my DAILY PODCAST by clicking the little White Triangle<\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memory\u00a0is a tricky thing. 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