Helping NeighborsThought for the Day

Good Samaritans

• Tangible assistance

• Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma

A Pattern

• “…anyone would have done the same…”

• “…somebody else helped me once…”

Neighbor

Neighbor

The Golden Rule

• “Love your neighbor as yourself.”—Moses

• “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”—Confucius

• “We should behave to others as we wish others to behave to us.”—Aristotle

• “Do nothing to thy neighbor which though would not have him to do thee after.”—Mahabharata

• “Do unto others as you would like to be done unto you.”—Jesus

Memorial Day

• Originally, “Decoration Day”• Decorated the graves of those who died in Civil War

• First decorated grave: June 3rd, 1861 in Warrenton, Virginia

• First holiday observance: May 1st, 1865 in Charleston, South Carolina

• Official First: May 5th, 1866 in Waterloo, New York (proclaimed May 26th, 1966)

Memorial Day

• 36 USC § 116—Memorial Day (May 11th, 1950)(a) Designation. The last Monday in May is Memorial Day.

(b) Proclamation. The President is requested to issue each year a proclamation—

1) Calling on the people of the United States to observe Memorial Day by praying, according to their individual religious faith, for permanent peace;

2) Designating a period of time on Memorial Day during which the people may unite in prayer for a permanent peace;

3) Calling on the people of the United States to unite in prayer at that time; and

4) Calling on the media to join in observing Memorial Day and the period of prayer.

Closing

• <<I closed this presentation by reading excerpts of President Obama’s 2013 Memorial Day Proclamation>>