It's Memorial Day weekend. A time when we honor those who gave their lives or their souls so we can live in freedom. I don't like war and I find it hard to support the causes, especially in some cases. But I need to understand it, we all do. Here are people who value their freedom so much that they would die for it. People who can understand the reasoning for war and think enough of me, without even meeting me, to protect me and my freedoms. People who don't look at Americans as who is illegal or who is not, who is guilty and who is innocent. They see America, a country as a whole, the best in the world, and they will do anything in their power to keep it that way. A true and pure love and dedication for their home.
So it seems ironic that people would die to keep us free yet some will take away our freedoms while still calling themselves Americans. Clotheslines, for example. (Who saw that coming? :) It seems like a slap in the face to those who have given so much to keep us free.
I will probably never understand war but will take the time to think of those who have lost everything to let me keep my freedom to not understand. And not just on one day a year, everyday, and in everything I do....
The Clothes Peg
Sunday, May 25, 2008
It's Ironic....
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I wish to post in honor of my mother, who was a supreme laundry hanger. My parents bought a home in 1950, when I was one year old. We lived on the second floor, with an unfinished attic above us. The first floor was occupied by my aunt, uncle and later, their two children. There was no basement and there was no facility for a dryer. My mother did her laundry on a wringer washer in our bathroom and rinsed out the clothes in the bathtub. For hanging, she used the attic, which was strung with lines from front to back. In the summer, she would used a clothesline that spanned from the window of our enclosed porch to the garage at the back of the yard. The clothesline was on a pulley and she bravely reached out from the second floor window to hang and retreive her laundry.
I have a line in my backyard and lines in my basement. Is this for everyone? I'm not sure what all the people who live in condominiums will do.
Thank you.
First, that is a beautiful homage to your mom. I'm so glad my husband bought a small house instead of a condo! We are really blessed to have the freedom to hang our clothes outside. Best regards, Mrs. King
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