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Memorial Day Message

On Friday, President Barry Soetoro traveled to Hiroshima, Japan to lecture the world about the immorality of war ... in particular, the use of atomic weaponry. In fact, just days before our Memorial Day holiday wherein we honor, among many others, the tens of thousands of American military who were killed fighting Japanese aggression, he implied, in his non-apology apology, that Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb there was "evil." This operative pejorative he slyly slipped into his sermon ... see: Breitbart Story. In truth, Truman's courageous act likely saved hundreds of thousands of American lives and quite a few more Japanese than were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Once again, chin in the air, this man-child in our White House  rose above the immorality of humankind and, in the process, sullied the memory of all of those Americans who gave their lives pushing back against this immorality. It was not President Truman who was evil. It is our current preachy pretend moralist.

Afterward: Add to this cloaked apology the fact that the Japanese Prime Minister Abe declined the invitation to travel to Pearl Harbor to return Soetoro's favor. This clearly indicates that Japan still wants it both ways.

After afterward: Ever the clear thinker, read John Hinderaker's thoughts on this sermon in the Powerline Blog.

Modern Dance

The octogenarian U.S. veterans who attended the D-Day memorial service on Sword Beach in Normandy, France today could not figure it all out … nor can I … particularly the slow-motion modern dancers' miming soldiers falling in combat. See the whole sorry show here: C-Span Video (it's a little long).  Even our gum-chewing President seemed bemused.

Interpretative dance has always left me gelid. As a young man, I saw the last ballet personally danced by a creaky old Martha Graham and I could hardly believe what I was seeing. The artsy-fartsy audience was in awe and I was in awful. And I got exactly this same feeling during this dreadful attempt at remembering all the untold sacrifices of D-Day. To me, solemn occasions cannot be prettified. (I think Abraham Lincoln felt the same way.)

Perhaps Japan might next remember Hiroshima with a rock concert?