By J. Patrick Coolican | Editor-in-chief
Good morning, Reformers,
Happy Memorial Day.
In case you (prudently) tuned out the past few days, the Trump administration and the Iranian regime have said they are kinda sorta close to a framework of an agreement for more negotiations, or something.
The latest, from NPR via MPR:
“President Donald Trump and other administration officials are tempering expectations raised of an imminent agreement to end the war in Iran while Iranian officials have signaled there are still disagreements on key issues.”
An airman assists in placing over 265,000 U.S. flags at every gravesite, columbarium court column and niche wall column as part of Flags-In at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. (Photo courtesy of Arlington National Cemetery)
A couple Reformer offerings today:
By David Lightman
The future of data centers and their huge appetite for electricity is quickly escalating as a political flashpoint from coast to coast, moving from cities and states now to the nation’s capital.
Bills are under debate in Congress. The Trump administration has weighed in. Lobbying is intensifying. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing changes.
But finding consensus on how to proceed in D.C. is tough, with the industry spreading around millions to make its case, some lawmakers pushing a moratorium, and others looking for ways to ease the burden on Americans without halting development.
By Dwight Hobbes
Dwight leads us through a history of the service of Black veterans, starting with the famed Buffalo Soldiers garrisoned at Fort Snelling in the 1880s. Through World War I and World II, Black soldiers were in segregated units, and then struggled to win the GI Bill benefits they were owed after the latter.
“Despite their valor, they wore ‘secondhand uniforms, rode poor quality horses and had the worst equipment, including their firearms,’ according to the Buffalo Soldiers Museum.
This would become historical pattern: Black soldiers in Minnesota and elsewhere, serving honorably, sometimes in unjust wars, but not receiving the respect or compensation that should have been their due.”
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OH BY THE WAY
Memorial Day was originally Decoration Day, because people decorated the graves of the fallen, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem for it. Here’s how it closes:
All is repose and peace,
Untrampled lies the sod;
The shouts of battle cease,
It is the Truce of God!
Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
The thoughts of men shall be
As sentinels to keep
Your rest from danger free.
Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
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Have a good day. I’m back Thursday. JPC
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