Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 24, 2015

True, but it’s also about much more.

I think that’s the point Janis is making…

Memorial to self?

Gather ye rosebuds

Hang out a flag.

where have all the flowers gone….they are here…we enjoy the bounty of their sacrifice

No red poppies?

I bought bunting this year….I’ve always wanted bunting…

I see Arlo’s gotten the fire under control.

Beat Memorial Day rememberance I’ve seen in a while. It does say a lot.

Can barely stand Memorial Day any more – monument to American Imperialism.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

Send me ‘dead’ flowers on my B’day,by the mail,in the hail. Peace. :)

Victoria Day actually.

Do you Americans observe Nov 11 Remembrance Day as much as Memorial Day? Up here in Canada, Nov 11 is a big deal.

Is it just me, or is the shading different on this strip today?

I think most if not all missed the point of Janice’s gathering of the flowers. When I was a kid, we picked a lot of flowers and put them in a big bucket to take to the grave yards. Back then it was called “Decoration Day.”

" before the fall of the Roman Republic they were in the same state. Internally and Republic, externally and Empire.".You probably meant:

Internally a Republic, externally an Empire.The Roman Empire was an empire for hundreds of years and parts of it still stand..Just because we share some traits with them doesn’t mean we have to share our fates with them. and even if we do, that would predict several hundred more years (also unlikely)

I’m sorry, Nightie, but do you mean German National Socialist goose-stepping or Soviet goose-stepping? My observation is that only socialist countries goose-step.

Do you know the history of the Left’s pre-occupation with “imperialism”? Marx in the 1848 “Manifesto” predicted the imminent collapse of capitalism, but when it hadn’t happened by the 1865 “Kapital”, he needed an excuse. He settled on the idea that the actual imperialism of Britain, France, et al., was keeping capitalism alive, and the Lefties have been railing against it ever since. America’s minor foray into actual imperialism was a result of the destruction of Spanish Imperialism. And of course, the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe wasn’t imperialism, no, not at all, he said sarcastically.

I thought the flower reference was a clever but subdued salute to the “honored dead”, but the history of “Decoration Day” is lost on people who only know Memorial Day as “the ‘unofficial’ start of summer”.

Y e s!

pschearer: No, imperialism, not socialism, which you apparently define as anyone who claims the term (don’t get run over by five-legged sheep) . The goose-step was developed by the British in the 19th century as a test for drunkenness. This was the peak of their imperial power. Your other two examples came later (20th century).

What!?!? No poppies?

Why doesn’t Arlo have friends?

Where are there friends? loners?