Hopefully, sometime today, each of us will
pause and remember why today 31 May is a National Memorial Holiday. Each year I reflect on all the people, their children, grandchildren, which we, the world will never know. So many lives, so many waves, so many possibilities - all lost because they answered the call of their country, our country. They did their duty as proud citizens - preserving the truth, protecting the rights, freedoms and safety we now hold dear.
On each Memorial Day, I have a memory in my mind's eye which I recall from when some friends and I visited the large Manassas Battlefield in Virginia when I was Junior in college. ->
https://www.nps.gov/mana/index.htmIt was early in the season and there were not many visitors there at that time. When we were walking around the battlefield's expanses, I suddenly was covered in chill-bumps and a wicked sense of déjà vu. I could not shake it until we left that hallowed ground and then that day was seared in my memory. About 10 years later, I was watching an episode of "The X-Files" where Mulder encounters his past life in the episode titled, "The Field Where I Died" ->
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Field_Where_I_Died or ->
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751225/That viewing re-triggered shivers ravaging throughout my body. I was having flashbacks to that day, those chill-bumps and the overwhelming feelings of déjà vu all those years ago while I was standing on that Manassas Battlefield. It finally made sense.
I've attached a few YT clips for pivotal elements from the episode.
The longer version (~ 5 mins) which explains more of the background ->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kldXC4rrOyQ Shorter crux, with Mulder reading lines from "Paracelsus" by Robert Browning.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l40myDtyaoI ->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgYJ-LOCxbc I visited the same battlefield a few years after that episode with my family and I found the déjà vu all over again. Makes you wonder for damn sure.
Stay safe, stay alive. Peace. Remember. V.