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Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

May 26, 2012
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Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Wishing all our members a happy and safe Memorial Day (and IML) Weekend! 

This being the unofficial kickoff, what are you most looking forward to this summer?

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About this author: Rob lives in Manhattan with his black pug Riley. When he’s not thinking about daddies, he enjoys writing, eating burritos, watching copious amounts of television, and thinking about his next meal.
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Submitted by Geomath (not verified) on Sat, 2012-05-26 16:54.

This will be a full summer for me. I am at last beginning to live my life as a gay man and will be starting my search for a life partner. I have moved back to Alabama to care for my aged mother after living for thirty years in Colorado. I want to return to the Rockies eventually, but I plan to live life to the full for my time here in the Deep South.

So that means exploring Alabama from top to bottom. It means finally taking up woodworking and advancing it from a hobby to a craft. It means resuming my study of the classical guitar. It means learning how to swim and canoe. I also eventually want to learn how to sail. It means working on my novel. It means reaching out to the gay community in Birmingham and meeting the interesting men who live here and elsewhere.

I'm excited about the possibilities here and am brimming over with plans and ideas. I want to find guys to share these pursuits with and maybe, just maybe, the partner I've wanted and needed for so many years. I know he's out there and that he's also looking for me. If neither of us quits, we'll find each other, and I want to wish the very best to the men using this website that their dreams for happiness also come true.

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Submitted by MNtwink93 (not verified) on Sun, 2012-05-27 04:57.

Hopefully I will be getting my own place an having privacy to explore my own fun ;)

Submitted by plucas87 (not verified) on Sun, 2012-05-27 18:14.

This summer I would like to workout more, so far lost 46 pounds, by the end of summer I would like to lose 40 more :)

Submitted by HOTGUY4GUY on Sun, 2012-05-27 18:56

firstly..lets not be so superficial......give reverance to the men and women who serve or served our country in the wars we have and are enduring. Only 1% of all Americans of "age" serve in the military Sad but true that we here think this is just a 3day fun filled weekend...Get real and give respect over this "holiday" weekend to those who shed their blood so that we can be free. Then...go enjoy yourself.......

Submitted by rand09 (not verified) on Tue, 2012-05-29 16:02.

We were asked what we plan on doing this summer...period. That you should call us superficial for answering the question as it was posed assumes quite a bit. If we asked what this holiday means to us I assure you the answers would be different. That there are those that fight for our country, some becoming physically and mentally injured, and sadly many who never make it back except in a black bag, does not go unnoticed by me or millions of others. The respect is there.

Submitted by MommieDammit on Thu, 2012-05-31 01:05

Have you? Or are you just here pissing in your beer? When you've lost a lover, two uncles, a grandfather, a brother and 4 cousins THEN you can open a mouth about Memorial Day. Until then, shut up.

As to the question originally asked, I'm spending the next two weeks getting the chiggers out of my yard so my legs don't look like a war zone every time I mow. Beyond that, looking for a new job, working on my blog, and raising my three new babies... great, now I'm possessed by 5 cats!!! Vodka... I need vodka.

Submitted by MrJimSir on Mon, 2012-05-28 21:26

You know, I agree with Hotguy4guy. I spent the weekend visiting sites connected to our Civil War: Gen. Sherman's birthplace in Lancaster, Ohio and the Confederate Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio. Somebody asked me if I'm a "history buff," and I've been thinking about that. It dawned on me that people who don't honor the past are like people who hurry through a beautiful park with a cell phone to their ear.

That being said, I'm looking forward to World Naked Bike Ride in Columbus next month. Talk about freedom!

Submitted by Bearfrolick on Sat, 2012-06-02 02:32

Just googled Confederate Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio. As a Southerner by birth. I had no idea there was a Confederate Cemetery in the North. I'm used to seeing the Southern men buried in mass graves as was done at Shiloh and other cemeteries. I certainly appreciate seeing individual markers for the Confederate dead at the Columbus cemetery with most being those that died in the prison camp there. I would like to see see that site someday. Thanks for letting me know of its existence.

Submitted by muscmanhunter on Fri, 2012-06-08 22:19

As written by Bearfrolick, I too was ignorant of a cemetery in Columbus, Ohio for the Confederate soldiers. I am a descendant of both Union and Confederate officers , and have mixed emotions of pride and sorrow concerning the Civil War. Someday I would like to visit the city. Thanks for the info :-)

Submitted by ShyPup4LTR (not verified) on Tue, 2012-05-29 13:38.

Time flies as its another memorial day weekend after another till we get progressive and cancel the traditional holidays and have no days off at all to implement social correctness void of all human elements.

Submitted by Greg1963 (not verified) on Wed, 2012-05-30 11:53.

This is not a 'happy' holiday, as I was reminded by a good friend who is in the Army in Afghanistan, and has lost several friends/unit members in the past few months.

Submitted by MommieDammit on Thu, 2012-05-31 01:16

Please tell your Army buddy that I'm sorry for the loss of his friends, and there's at least one jaded old drag queen/Army widow praying for his safe return... that ought to scare the hell out of him.
I lost my lover, Dennis, over 20 years ago. He never saw active combat, and served 3 years in Germany before they found out he was gay and kicked him out. He went through a lot of hell both in and after his service. He finally took his own life after battling his demons for 4 years since discharge. Memorial Day is not an easy holiday for anyone who loves and/or has lost a soldier, and for Dennis' family and myself it is especially bitter since he isn't afforded any of the military honors. I hope your friend comes home safe and whole.

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Submitted by ShyPup4LTR (not verified) on Thu, 2012-06-14 22:23.

The biggest things for us to remember are personal family type things that will always be just a bit more important than any date set aside by Government decree for sure.