re: #147 SanFranciscoZionist

Millions, including myself, NEVER EVEN NOTICED.

I think it is nice that Biden is going. I think it is nice that Obama is laying a wreath at Abraham Lincoln.

I think also that the man who stands as CiC for every serviceman and woman who falls in the two wars we are now conducting probably doesn’t need to be reminded of the fallen. I imagine he spends plenty of time with them on a daily basis.

Maybe it’s just me, but using a visit to a cemetery as a political point against a president just seems really creepy and morally dark to me. Not just because it’s Obama, but because people are like YOU MUST HAIL THE DEAD IN JUST THIS WAY. Real pagan. Real weird.

This just uncorks my feelings about graveyards in general. I don’t visit corpses or ashes. I think burying intact dead people in an expensive box that stays where it is forever is creepy and wasteful. The only time in my life I ever go to a cemetery is for the funeral, that’s it. I honor my dead relatives by telling stories about them, by having conversations about them with my living ones, by asking what was grampa like when he was your dad, mom? That’s more valuable to me than getting in my car, buying some flowers, and leaving them on some stone.

I don’t need to hang out where the urn is. It’s pointless to me.