How do you celebrate this holiday sober?
If this is your first sober Memorial Day how do you plan to celebrate?
I like to:
• Express gratitude to those who died for me in combat.
• Enjoy patriotic cereal if I can find it.
• Sleep in
• Grill
• Plan to make patriotic desserts that I never get to.
Can I be invited? Hi ho
I plan to find where you got that and enlist in Cap'n Crunch's fleet.
Lol. You going to be doing the shopping. Get to it.
You know it!
Sam's Club!
Tell him! 
It’s my sobriety birthday and my actual birthday 4 days later and they are the bookends to the 3 day weekend. Mr dad, my brother will be visiting. Last time they visited was to bail me out of jail 7/19/19. My sister in law and my nephews will be here for the first time. Sobriety brings with it so much to be grateful for.
At the pool overlooking the intercostal in North Miami Beach at my in-laws with my wife and daughter, barbecuing it up and sippin some Lacroix's
Happy birthday x2! I'm so excited for you to celebrate with your family. My heart is swelled with so much joy.
Nice! Water activity and BBQ! 2 of my favorite things.
Nobody has "died for you in combat". In our lifetime, every war has been fought for the rich of this country, not the rest of us and our "freedom".
Want to be patriotic and support our troops? Then push to have them brought home instead of occupying other countries that don't affect our freedom here at home. Stop supporting the endeavors of the rich, bring our troops home.
Yes, people have lost their lives for me. I'm certain of that. I hope you have a great Thursday!
Not to gang up on you but in simple rebuttal. I can list 3 wars that were fought solely for freedom. The Revolution, fought to give us freedom from the tyranny of King George. The Civil War, fought to free us from the tyranny of slavery. WWII, fought to free the world from tyranny of religious and ethnic holocaust. There have been countless men and women who fought for our freedoms. Many marched into the blaze of guns in unjust wars; but they fought for the security of our nation. Some fought so no one else would have to. Consider this last war. If we had not had those who served then the draft would have been active. That means they fought in our stead.
And again, I say, none of us were alive for those wars. So nobody has actually died for the freedom of Americans. I know everyone gets all glassy eyed on the subject and we all want to think we are right, but there is alot more to it than blind "patriotism", with silly red white and blue cereal and patriotic deserts.
I don't feel ganged up on, and even if I did, it's just a conversation, nothing wrong with that. I don't drink that Kool aid, not a big deal.
I will say it again though, bring them home, and stop supporting wars that enrich the wealthy ruling class in the name of "patriotism", on the backs of the working poor of America.
I would love to see what this nation would look like without those who died in the past. To say no one died for what we have now is akin to saying my great great great grandparents didn't have kids so I could be here today. No the reason they had kids was they had kids. But without them I would not have my life.
Um, okay.
'Merica.
Sounds like a great day. Lucky me I live by the va always something to do there
Your opion is yours all be it uneducated. If you dislike the daybor idea of then stay away from it. Your need to let others know says more about your own self then how they choose to spend that day. I for one know men who fell in combat and the whole heartedly believed in the cause in which we fought for.
I'm going to look for an "NA picnic" in my area. 
