Memorial Day For All Those Who Fight For Our Country

A True Memorial Day

Every May this country remembers the people who have died while in military service by setting a day aside, Memorial Day. I ask why we do not honor and remember the fallen and deceased patriots that have fought truth to power, who fought not for a government sanctioned war, but for the people’s wars against injustice, inequality, oppression, poverty, deception and class.

Throughout this country’s history, patriots have stood up to the power structure and fought to make the United States what it should be. Many died fighting on picket lines, registering voters, protesting war, or providing health care to women. Others were killed by an assassins bullet because of hate, ignorance and intolerance.Token days have been set aside for some great leaders of the social movement like Susan B Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr., but as a whole the social justice warriors go unrecognized and definitely not immortalized. Here are just a few past patriots that we might want to remember this Memorial Day.
Harriett Tubman, who guided black slaves to freedom and fought to end slavery of blacks and women.
Mary Harris Jones (commonly known as "Mother Jones"),who helped found the Industrial Worker of the World, IWW. Believing that workers should be united together as a class.
César Chávez, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association and is hailed as one of the greatest American civil rights leaders
Margret Sanger, who fought for women’s reproductive rights and founded Planned Parenthood.
Thurgood Marshall who argued the case Brown vs board of Education before the Supreme court and later served as a Justice himself.
Allison Krause, William Schroeder, Jeffrey Miller and Sandra Scheuer, who were shot at Kent State during a peace protest.
Barnett Slepian, who was assassinated by a terrorist because he believed in women’s reproductive freedom and because he provide safe, legal abortions to women who exercised that freedom.
Trudy Benson, a local activist who fought for women's reproductive rights, was a court watcher and helped make her neighborhood a safer place

Although, some died directly because of their fight and some from natural causes, all should be remembered as the people’s warriors. I will ask those who would like to add more names whether national, local or your personal warriors to do so in the add a new comment, so they can be remembered this Memorial Day.