MONDAY is Memorial Day in the USA, a day on which Americans show some respect to those who gave their lives in American wars past.
TOMORROW (Friday) begins the Memorial Day weekend. Although the 3-day weekend doesn’t have it’s beginning until the next day (Saturday), as Americans have embraced the holiday, MANY appear to ‘get ready’ on Friday–making Memorial Day weekend a FOUR-DAY weekend.
The holiday is observed on the last Monday of May, as weather is turning warm and most schools and universities are adjourning for the summer, establishing Memorial Day weekend as the unofficial beginning of summer.
On that three-day weekend, many people travel to visit friends and family. They attend events ranging from community gatherings to large sports competitions. The Indianapolis (“Indy”) 500 motor race, for instance, attracts an estimated 300,000 people on the Saturday before Memorial Day. But many Americans also visit cemeteries, where volunteers often place American flags on graves. On Memorial Day itself, a national moment of silence takes place at 3 p.m. local time to remember the war dead.
—Memorial Day: Reflection and Celebration
Memorial Day has ALWAYS been celebrated–whether it has been acknowledged or not–as a sort of UNOFFICIAL beginning to SUMMER and vacation season.
This unofficial season of SUMMER usually runs until the first weekend in September, when Labor Day unofficially marks the END of SUMMER.
So, Americans have not only celebrated a number of FEDERAL holidays (recognized and promoted by the US government), they have also celebrated the summer vacation season in the most UNOFFICIAL way–both the beginning and the end of that normally hot season.
ETPR MAY be writing MORE about this uniquely-American holiday–OR, we may not.
Time will tell.
This is as good a time as any to ask readers a few questions about Memorial Day.
1- IS the reader planning on doing anything ‘SPECIAL’ to remember those who died in American wars?
2- HAS the reader EVER celebrated Memorial Day as it was INTENDED to be celebrated?
3– IS Memorial Day anything ‘OUT-OF-THE-ORDINARY’ for the reader?
4- HAS Memorial Day EVER meant anything other than what the government and the media have claimed it to be?
REGARDLESS of PAST BEHAVIORS, ETPR would like to take this opportunity to wish ALL readers
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY 2023!
DOES the reader have any thoughts which pertain to Memorial Day?
It is not YET too late–although time is surely running out: there is still a LITTLE time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.
DOES the reader believe he is saved?
Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival
DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?
Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
—1 Corinthians 15:1-8
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16
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[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: May 26-28, 2023]
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