Tag Archives: Memorial Day

Remembering with Gratitude and Sorrow

Posted on May 30, 2022 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Amid the aftermath of the most recent episodes of civilian slaughter we come to our National Day of Remembrance for the lives given in service to our country. With so few in America now serving in the armed forces, and … Continue reading →

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Memorial Day

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Over the past months since Ash Wednesday we have had occasion to mentioned the nearness of death to each of us as well as our consciousness of it. The recent advent of the coronavirus has impressed on us the former … Continue reading →

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Remembering the dead

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Recently I have been reading In Parenthesis by David Jones. It is an epic prose poem dealing with his experience in World War I between December 1915 and July 1916. TS Eliot, in an introduction to the book, called it … Continue reading →

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Memorial Day

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Randy Coleman-Riese

For the past eleven years just prior to the Memorial day weekend, Saint Vincent High School in Petaluma, California has set aside one day to remember one of its graduates who died August 25, 2005, while serving with the US … Continue reading →

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