How bright is our glowing light this Memorial Day? – Healthcare Blog

Mike Magee

According to veteran government historians, Memorial Day’s origins date back to 1864, when three Pennsylvania women joined the grief to decorate the graves of family members who died in the Civil War. A year later, the residents of other towns joined, and a year later, in 1866, women from Columbus, Mississippi joined the event in honor of the fallen Allied soldiers. That was 14 years after Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published 1852.

Published in the first year, Uncle Tom's cottage 300,000 copies sold. Writer and critic Alfred Kazin called it “the most powerful and enduring work of all time on American slavery.” Its prominent statement in the American Dictionary itself, and its relevance in goodness and governance, legislation, the role of women in building civil society, and the basis of Christianity in the unrealized potential of the American Dream, all show the continued value of the publication.

On page 2 of the preface, Harriet Beecher Stowe commented on the “memorial” of human hatred and cruelty towards the ashes of history. “Hope is a comfort because many worlds of sadness and mistakes have been lived in the world from age to age, so that the sketches similar to these sketches have only been the memorial of the memorials that have long ceased for, and will come.”

To do this, we must answer today: “Not yet. There is still some work.”

On the last page of her book in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe reflects (as if in the dilemma of the present), “It is an age of a world where nations are trembling and twitching. Abroad, powerful influence is abroad, rapidly sensation of the world, like earthquakes, like security in the United States, a given, and all are constantly engaging in this unwelcome situation, in this unwell situation, in this unwell situation, in this unwell situation, in this unwell situation, in this powerful situation.

To this end, we must respond to the kindness and democracy of human beings: “If our elected leaders promote policies (whether here or abroad), we will never be free, safe and healthy, which believe in our instincts, promote fear and trigger plunder.”

Until recently, the White House was largely a sacred and precious shrine. Back in 2013, when our President Barack Obama presided over our former President George HW Bush and his family there to commemorate the 5000th award for “Daily Lighting” and the former president launched the “Honor” honorary figures who demonstrated the transformative capacity of service, their daily actions and actions that initiated other points through their daily actions and words. ”

President Obama said that day: “…In view of the humility that defines your life, I doubt it is difficult to see what everyone around you know, and that's your light, your sights shining – how your vision and role models light up the paths of many others, how your love is here, how your love is here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,

Just over a decade ago, it seemed enough to publicly “thank you” to you. And, most people (most people) see “positive citizenship” as a member of this great country, even at the point where life is sacrificed to defend it.

After all, this is what Memorial Day is commemorated. Action is needed, taking examples of role models and daily behaviors, as is goodness and virtue.

We continued to struggle in the shadow of Uncle Tom's cottage. We lack perfection, but we certainly can and should do better. Because staying healthy in America is to realize our full potential, namely civilization, as Ralph Waldo Emerson puts it, “In order for you to be a liberal cause of slavery, you must… declare independently.”

Mike Magee, MD, is a medical historian and regular contributor to THCB. He is Code Blue: Inside the American Medical Industry Complex. (Grove/2020)