“Good morning world. What do the words, dying inside, dying, Going Away, and MIA mean to your life. And that’s another insightful question that has to do with Life, Survival, and RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Because GUESS WHAT TODAY IS MEMORIAL DAY. Yes, it looks like another Memorial Day has again come our way! No, I am not crazy! So, knowing in fact that I am sane. Like I have said many times before, and I will say again, and once more, just because a Hollow day has closed its doors, that does not mean it is gone forevermore! Because shore to shore all Holidays REMAIN AND GO ON like the day before! SO, KNOWING LIKE THE OTHER HOLIDAYS THAT MEMORIAL DAY WILL ALWAYS BE EVERYDAY! What comes to your mind when I write the words GOING AWAY, DYING INSIDE, DYING, and MIA? And as, you are trying to SURVIVE THE FACTS OF LIFE, while not knowing what you are doing, sometimes do you feel like you are….GOING AWAY, while DYING INSIDE, and being MIA TOO. And .. M-issing I-nsight as you are A-ging it is obvious FOR SOME OF YOU that MIA means many things in different ways! So, asking you those GOING AWAY, DYING INSIDE, DYING, and MIA…. MISSING IN ACTION questions, with another Holiday or HOLLOW day coming our way. YES, I said Memorial Day is coming our way! Yes I know for some of you YESTERDAY WAS MEMORIAL DAY. But, I also know for OTHERS, and for the REST OF US that Memorial Day will always be EVERYDAY! That means, Memorial Day IS TODAY, TOMORROW AND EVERYDAY. And that means Memorial Day will never go away! BECAUSE THE REASON FOR THE MEMORIAL WILL ALWAYS STAY. So, changing my theme TO GOING AWAY, also to WHAT REMAINS. Always trying to keep my blog current with the FACTS OF LIFE that will affect you night and day. As most of you know, while looking forward to a new Holiday going by…..OR WITH SOME OF YOU HAVING TO FACE A HOLIDAY THAT REMAINS….. We just commemorated yet another long Holiday weekend that was full of good food, relaxation, also play. That means, we once more CELEBRATED SOME THING called a HOLLOW DAY! So, once again with SOME OF YOU NOT EVEN knowing what that HOLLOW DAY, also called a holiday was really all about. We just Celebrated SOME THING that Meant Everything to some, and Nothing to Others no doubt! Therefore, knowing some THING else to celebrate or IGNORE arrived, OR WON’T GO ON BY. Shore to shore I am once more getting ready to change my thoughts to something that has to do with RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Bottom line, I am about ready to start writing about SOME THING MISSING IN ACTION that will lead to A FOREVERMORE LIFE. But, since some of you might not know what that ANY OF THAT MEANS. I thought I would clarify that GOING AWAY, DYING INSIDE, DYING, and MIA Theme…. with something that really did happen to me. And once again that was something that meant EVERYTHING to ALOT OF PEOPLE, and yet to others meant nothing. So, since that DYING INSIDE, DYING, GOING AWAY, and MIA clarification is necessary. Because a few of you still do not know the difference between Celebrating, Memorializing, being MIA, Commemorating…DYING, DYING INSIDE, GOING AWAY, or Ignoring THE FACTS IF LIFE! IN THAT MEMORIAL DAY CLUE that has everything to do with what REMAINS…TO HELP YOU REALIZE WHY MEMORIAL DAY WILL NEVER BE A HOLIDAY. Likewise, to help you UNDERSTAND WHY MEMORIAL DAY WILL ALWAYS BE EVERYDAY! I thought I would start off….. talking about WHAT GOING AWAY, DYING, DYING INSIDE, MIA, And MEMORIAL DAY REALLY STILL MEAN TO A DAY OR NIGHT THAT WILL NEVER GO AWAY. So, moving on from the other STORMY, GRADUATING, MOTHERING, ALSO SPRING THINGS I have been writing about…. that have been affecting or infecting you in different ways. Let’s think about what goes into AN EVERYDAY MEMORIAL DAY! And thinking about MEMORIAL DAY in many different ways…. KNOWING THAT MEMORIAL DAY WILL ALWAYS BE EVERYDAY. Here’s another inquiry for you…. as you are going along your way…. So number one…HAVE YOU EVER BEEN DYING INSIDE. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN MIA IN YOUR LIFE? And putting that M-ost I-mportant A-nswer attached to that GOING AWAY, MIA question another way. While M-ISSING I-NSIGHT as you are A-GING! Have you ever felt like YOU were GOING AWAY, DYING INSIDE, OR MISSING IN ACTION in your life’s stay? Next asking you that needing RESCUE question as another important holiday OR HOLLOW-DAY REMAINS. I thought I would again change my posts direction. That means, I will now be thinking about what it REALLY means to be GOING AWAY, DYING, DYING INSIDE, or MIA! Bottom line, I thought I would write about what it really means to be RUNNING OUT OF TIME! And taking my writing in that RUNNING OUT OF TIME direction I will additionally be writing about…. what GOING AWAY, DYING INSIDE and MISSING IN ACTION really means TO YOUR LIFE! I will further be asking you… as you are M-ISSING INSIGHT while you are A-GING. GOING AWAY, .and DYING INSIDE! What it feels like to be MIA awake or asleep. And that DYING INSIDE OR MIA INSIGHT will be very interesting! Because several years ago…. THE DAY AFTER MEMORIAL DAY….I was reminded…what GOING AWAY, DYING INSIDE, DYING, AND MISSING IN ACTION really meant to a life. That’s why, right now as you are considering the difference between Celebrating, Memorializing, Commemorating …..Also IGNORING! In that RUNNING OUT OF TIME refresher course that has everything to do with what being Lost, Alone, Dying Inside, MIA, or Dying really feels like….. Drawing on a personal experience of mine…..that should change everybody’s life. Thinking more about the Reality of War-time….. while writing less about a holiday THAT FOR SOME OF YOU WENT AWAY…. Always, thinking about a MEMORIAL DAY THAT FOR OTHERS REMAIN. I am again going to be writing about THE ENDLESS GOING AWAY, DYING INSIDE, DYING, AND MIA NIGHT in a different way! Because remembering that MEMORIAL DAY IS EVERYDAY ALL OF THE TIME! As war has once again come to our minds. Today THE DAY AFTER MEMORIAL DAY….I have once more been reminded what GOING AWAY, DYING INSIDE, DYING and MIA really means in many people’s lives. Because YEARS ago, at this time coming from a distant shore. I was on an airplane flight with the SKELETAL REMAINS of a WORLD WAR 2 MISSING IN ACTION Airman, who AFTER GOING AWAY, and RUNNING OUT OF TIME DIED ON A DISTANT SHORE. So with us realizing that his bones had just come out of hiding after being found. And with that GOING AWAY, DYING, DYING INSIDE and BEING MIA EXPERIENCE OF MINE TURNING EVERYTHING AROUND. SEEING THAT AIRMAN BEING RE-LOCATED. That COMING BACK HOME thought has always stayed fresh on my mind EVERY day… especially on the DAY… AFTER MEMORIAL DAY. Likewise, with that touching experience never fading away from my inner minds sight. I have always realized that YEARS ago we were flying with a HERO OF THE FIGHT who really KNEW WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO GO AWAY, DIE INSIDE, DIE, AND TO BE MIA IN HIS LIFE. Because the DAY AFTER MEMORIAL DAY WE WERE FLYING WITH THE BONEY REMAINS OF AN MIA AIRMAN WHO AFTER GOING AWAY HAD ALREADY RUN OUT OF TIME! THAT MEANS, WE WERE FLYING WITH THE BONEY REMAINS OF AN MIA WHO HAD DIED and who until that new relocation day…. had once been MIA for many days and nights! Bottom line, I was on the flight with a MISSING IN ACTION WORLD WAR TWO AIRMAN who after his failed crash landing 72 YEARS BEFORE… while fighting in the War……… Truly understood what GOING AWAY, DYING, DYING INSIDE, DYING, and MIA stood for. And TO MAKE SURE YOU DON’T RUN OUT OF TIME that is important insight. Because understanding the pain and sacrifices of War…..after he went away and Died a world away on a distant shore…. much later as his MIA bones had been rescued and freed from their UN-RESTFUL PLACE….. OUR COUNTRY’S HERO was coming home to stay….SO WITH ALL OF YOU NEEDING TO KNOW THAT MEMORIAL DAY WILL ALWAYS BE EVERYDAY! HE WAS COMING HOME after being lost in isolation on a distant shore SO FAR AWAY. That means, YEARS ago I was on a flight with a MIA Son, Brother, Lover, Husband, Uncle, or Father, and FRIEND whose Bones were finally coming back Home AGAIN to the ones he loved! Bottom line one more time. WITH ALL OF THEM KNOWING WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE DYING INSIDE! On that flight after many people had been tirelessly searching for what remained of him… From dark to light for over SEVENTY YEARS! A LIFETIME later after ending his last FATAL trip……… I was flying in the Sky with A MAN WHO HAD ONCE BEEN ALIVE. THEN GOING AWAY, DYING INSIDE, DYING, while being DEAD, and MISSING IN ACTION MOST OF HIS LIFE! I WAS ON A TRIP WITH AN AIRMAN WHO HAD RUN OUT OF TIME! Thats why, as he took his Final Flight HOME that was bringing him back to the life he left behind. WITH HIS FAMILY DYING INSIDE….. MANY THINGS THEN….AND MANY THINGS NOW ARE STILL ON MY MIND. Because, as our wheels on the ground touched down. I realized that Finally the lost MIA WHO HAD GONE AWAY had been FOUND! So, as many in his life WHO HAD BEEN DYING INSIDE….had ALREADY shed a million silent tears wishing he would come back to them alive after he roamed over the years….. Instead…..quietly living the DYING INSIDE, DYING, MIA life…. of the dead….. After being all alone….. In that flight into the sky….. I was thankful that HE had finally returned….HOME. And in the Plane Captains announcement stating that a HERO was on board our plane…. Laying cold in the cargo hole….. In the thoughts of the MEMORIAL DAY YEARS AGO! REALIZING THAT MEMORIAL DAYS IS EVERYDAY. KNOWING THAT MEMORIAL DAY WILL NEVER GO AWAY. I was Commemorating the fact that the lonely Bones of this once misplaced DYING INSIDE, DYING, DEAD AND MIA HERO….. Finally were coming back HOME to stay! So, knowing his Bones were coming home…that was a great day in so many ways! That’s why, as his body, hopes and dreams had once laid missing in a jungle for decades… Or had been rotting on a beach head. Or had been found behind some closed door where he had been lying dead. While TEARS TURNED INTO YEARS! Going around the bend… THE ONE WHO DIED and had been MIA HAD BEEN FOUND! And with his BONES no longer laying lost in the COLD, HARD ground. ON HIS BONES FINAL FLIGHT BACK HOME. While crying silent tears, I was Rejoicing with him that his BONES WERE NO LONGER ALONE! But OVER THE YEARS I was also commiserating with his Family and Friends WHO HAD BEEN DYING INSIDE MOST OF THEIR LIFE…BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH HIS BONES HAD COME HOME. HIS FACE AND SMILE WERE NOT COMING BACK TO THEM.. So, I KNEW HIS ARRIVAL was going to be bittersweet…. That’s why, Celebrating the fact that the once missing MIA Airman had been found…… But knowing ONLY HIS BONES were COMING HOME. Needless to say… that MIA Story STILL BRINGS TEARS to my eyes and many MEMORIAL thoughts to my mind. Because like so many kids….. I too had a darling, strong, brave Daddy who fought in World War 2 during that terrible time. Happily, however my daddy came back Alive. Unhappily, however there are still many MIA HERO’S remains….. Who even today are lying deep in a silent sleep resting uneasily in lost graves with no light. Bottom line, there are STILL other HERO MIA’s resting underneath the hidden moonlight. That means there are still many MIA’S Who still are today sleeping below the circling hawks…covered up by the lonely rocks, or tucked in underneath the waves, in unknown unmarked graves. And unable to talk or walk their Bones are still missing, while resting UNEASILY Below their lonely unmarked spots. THAT’S WHY, as the MIA continue to lay in Unknown Graves. Knowing that MEMORIAL DAY …and MIA…..really mean EVERYTHING to so many who went away…. LIKEWISE KNOWING WHAT MEMORIAL DAY…. STILL MEANS TO THE OTHERS… WHO STAYED BEHIND WAITING FOR THEM TO COME BACK TO SAFE. REALIZING MANY ARE STILL DYING INSIDE…. WHILE OTHER DIED. WAITING FOR THEIR FACE OR SMILE TO COME BACK INTO THEIR LIFE. KNOWING THAT THERE ARE MANY WHO DIED SO WE COULD HAVE A FREE LIFE THAT’S WHY EVERYDAY WILL BE MEMORIAL DAY! That’s also why Today I still appreciate the fact… that we are all…. looking for our Missing Secretly, Weeping, Sleeping Veterans as their story…. and bones also need a Happy Ending. Therefore, knowing that the word…. MISSING MEANS…. lost and out of sight. And that Action means….. An act of something that has already happened or will soon arrive. …. Likewise, knowing that Memorializing means….. Remembering what was left behind….. Furthermore, and for EVERMORE realizing that Commemorating means Many, Many, things in life! AS DYING MEANS THE END OF THE BODY’S LIFE. AND DYING INSIDE MEANS NEVER GIVING UP, WHILE MEMORILIZING A LIFE. Everybody needs to know that there’s a lot of MEANING to the MEMORIAL special day and night…… also the Armed forces motto…that states…. LEAVE NONE ALONE! NO NEVER LEAVE ANY-BODY BEHIND! TAKE THEM ALL HOME! NONE SHOULD BE MIA! AND NEEDING TO HAVE AN END TO THEIR STORY OF LIFE… NOBODY IN THEIR FAMILY SHOULD EVER BE LEFT BEHIND… DYING INSIDE… AFTER THEY GO AWAY!
But Wait… WAS THAT REALLY THE END OF HIS STORY. And in his MIA history! WAS HE REALLY MISSING? So, asking you that GOING AWAY, DYING INSIDE, DYING, DEAD, MIA Cliff hanging question THAT HAS EVERYTING TO DO WITH LIFE. Join me back here tomorrow as I continue my thoughts on MEMORIAL DAY. Then as you read about more of my life experiences as they also pertain to your days. We will all be able to understand what SAVED, DYING INSIDE, DYING, MIA, GOING HOME and MEMORIAL DAY really means in so many different ways.” Joslin Fitzgerald …….The Mary Author……..