Created Equal: How To Stay That Way...

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"I don't make the rules, I just think them up and write them down."

I am eternally grateful to rise yet another Memorial Day and be able to give thanks to those men and women who have died in service of our country. Fighting for what we have, what we are, what we can be. And while I love this country of ours, and our fighting troops even more and can't thank them enough for treading foreign soils to give us safety in our homeland, I can't help but wonder who they're fighting for?

The Privilege Of Created Equal:

This Memorial Day we have the chance to reflect on those who gave their all both in times past and now. We have time to honor the families who lost one of the many soldiers we morn today. We have to think about why there is a need for this day in the first place, and since currently there is, do we deserve the symbol it represents?

When ole TJ sat down and penned one of the greatest documents known to man (or at least Americans), he knew men would die for it. That even though it should never come to the death of a single human, many would disagree, many would rise up against us, and many would fall.

Memorial Day symbolizes the day that we needed to form a fighting force to protect our way of life from those who would attack it. But one look at our way of life should make us question whether this is what TJ and our forefathers had in mind when they were willing to sacrifice so many good men. Did they mean Equality was a right? Or did they mean it was a given privilege that could be squandered by choices unbecoming an American?

They Died For American Idol:

I'm not trivializing the death of any single warrior to date. In fact, I'm trying to paint such a vivid picture even the blindest eyes can see. There was a day when the country was unified against a common tyrant. Where, sadly, there were men dying on the front line. All the while folks at home were working and improving and saluting those fighting abroad....not forgetting them.

There was a time when a soldier would be fighting mainly for his family, of course, but for his country, his friends, his way of life, strangers. He fought because he knew all that was worth fighting for. Is that same truth evident today? 

It seems kinda hard to believe someone would go half way around the world to sacrifice themselves so American Idol can air one more time, or some washed up actress can dance herself skinny and win some bullshit show saturating the time Americans could use to be great. Time we could use to show our troops that they are fighting for more than TV. More than suburbs, and shopping. It's time we show we are worth fighting for. That they are fighting for the spirit we once had. Not the $%#^ing fat ass spirit many of us have become. 

If You Won't, They Shouldn't:

There are those not fighting for themselves that have others doing the work for them. Able-bodied individuals line the halls of hospitals with fake disease that only came into existence over the last 50 years. Fake because the simple cure to many of them is to get your fat us up and care enough to do something about it. To fight. To fight for yourself. And not only will some not fight for themselves, they expect others to fight and die in their honor. A selfish country we have become. And we wonder why people hate us. We wonder why the military recruits less and less. We wonder why most question, "What are we fighting for again? What am I dying for?"

Today we are lucky enough to celebrate a great country, and even greater soldiers who have died for it. Hopefully, these deaths are not for the rule makers. Not for the people who make the food pyramids that are making Americans sick, produce the cars making Americans pay at the pump, and inventing diseases Americans need medication for.

Hopefully, this Memorial Day we can celebrate the lives of those beloved fighters who gave their all. This Memorial Day we can take our shirts off, lift heavy shit, get dirty, do something scary, eat meat, salute those who fight, and say "%#^% you!" to those who think we shouldn't. This Memorial Day we can make the memory of those fallen a little sweeter by redeeming why they fell in the first place.

*Memorial Day WOD 11am/Cookout After

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Weekly Endurance WODs:

WOD 1

Rx: *6 x 200, 2 min rest

Scaled: *6 x 200, 3 min rest

* This WOD will be done as a class

WOD 2

7 min @ 90%

5 min @ 90%

Comments

[Sammy]

Nice Cartman. I am cracking up about the quote.

[NP]

Someone in the front row looks thrilled to be in the picture :)

[Bonnie Mac]

Happy Memorial Day, everyone! Wish I could be there with you all!!!

[k]

good to see such a huge group make it out today, even w other obligations on the agenda. and so many new faces! it sure was good-n-hot this year.

[Dana]

Ty, Scott, Carrie & Dana
18:20 (m)

[heatherT]

Nicole, Richard, Wendy, & HeatherT
27:37(m)

[Rachael]

filthy fifty scaled to 35 - rx weights etc 20:30 (pr by 10 min 2/7/11)