Colonel James Arthur McGinn, U.S.M.C.
The Patriot Post published an interesting story yesterday, and I've included a snippet from it below. A link to The Patriot Post is now included in MY Blog List on the right side of this Blog. The entire story about Mike McGinn being turned away from Arlington cemetery on Memorial Day when he went to visit his father's grave can be found at this link: http://patriotpost.us/
When you click on the link, look for "Alexander's Essay 28 May 2009."
Here's the snippet from that story:
Marine Aviator's Memorial Day Wave Off
"The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations." --George Washington
Every week, the greatest challenge I face as editor of The Patriot Post is determining which subject among all the current news and policy issues concerning liberty and constitutional integrity should be the target of an essay. I mention this because deep into this week's treatise and just a few hours ahead of deadline, I received a message from one of our Patriot readers that offered a far more powerful perspective on where we are as a nation than anything I'd been writing.
That message was from Mike McGinn, and began: "Only under the administration of a former 'community organizer,' a product of the corrupt Chicago political machine, who never served a day of his life in uniform, could a 20-year retired Marine Corps Officer be prohibited from visiting the Arlington National Cemetery resting place of his father, a 30-year retired Marine Corps Officer with distinguished combat service, on the most hallowed of days for our fallen and deceased military servicemen and women -- Memorial Day."
