What is the true meaning of Memorial Day?

Memorial Day was declared a national holiday through an act of Congress in 1971, and its roots date back to the Civil War era, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Unlike Veterans Day, Memorial Day honors all military members who have died in while serving in U.S. forces.

Falling on the last Monday of May each year, Memorial Day honors the men and women who died while serving in all branches of the U.S. military—more than 1.1 million military personnel in all conflicts from the Revolutionary War to the war on terror.

Memorial Day is about pausing our everyday lives to remember military veterans who gave the ultimate sacrifice.

So, can you say “Happy Memorial Day?” Yes, of course, you can… especially if it comes from a place of grateful joy for the life we live today that was provided by the sacrifices of generations before. On Memorial Day, take time to reflect on the men and women who gave it all for us.

All of the above were posted over the past couple of days, by various persons not myself, so to those who wrote those words please forgive my lack of citations, but I don’t think anyone was looking for personal credit when they contributed their posts to the internet, but I would like to thank them anyway for their words that needed to be heard by as many as possible – as a US Navy Veteran who didn’t die in combat, today is not about me, it’s about my brothers & sisters in arms who can no longer be thanked for their service – but to their surviving family members I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart for the sacrifice they endured being the loved one of someone who died in service to their country.

Cj Contractor Services has always been veteran owned & operated, and on this day, Memorial Day 2022, all profits will be donated to veterans and their families, and by the end of the day my goal is to be able to declare the formation of Americas Finest Carpet & Flooring – a subsidiary I’m looking to franchise as a non-profit company that employs disabled veterans, able bodied veterans, and supporters willing to donate the proceeds of their contractor services to those who served without asking, to ensure all Americans have the freedom to exist and to capitalize on that existence how they so choose.

Happy Memorial Day wishes from Cj Contractor Services to every American whether they served or not – those being remembered today would have wanted it that way. For those of us still dealing with the loss of someone we loved, find happiness in the company of someone we still have.

Happy Memorial Day from Cj Contractor Services

Americas Finest – carpet & flooring sales & installation – high paying jobs for disabled & able bodied veterans immediately in Houston, TX

It’s still a little soon in the process but I’m excited about the launch of Cj’s newest project – Americas Finest Carpet & Flooring, that will be a new type of virtual carpet & flooring shopping experience, sales will be managed using remote technology with our partners Prosource and Houzz Pro so that disabled veterans can efficiently assist renovating homeowners choose new carpet & flooring using the latest technology – apps from our partners that demonstrate what a particular carpet or floor will look like installed in their home, assist them with product & color selection while working remotely from home. Of course some homeowners will want to see, feel & touch a new carpet or flooring sample prior to selection, and our partnership with Prosource opens access to the best showrooms in more areas to our customers all over the country.

After a product is selected we will be partnering with the National Wood Flooring Association, CFI and other industry trade associations that train and certify installers to guarantee the perfect installation every time. We are currently seeking able bodied vets willing to travel to the training site for the length of the certification class, so that our installations will have a lifetime warranty from a certified installer that also belongs to Americas Finest – our nations veterans. If you’re a veteran interested in becoming a certified flooring installer, the pay is good, it comes with benefits, and we’re hiring right now in Houston, Tx soon to be followed by Orlando, Fl and St Louis, Mo. Message us at 832-464-4143.

Mohawk industries will be working with us to provide the highest quality products at the best possible pricing, we our proud to be partnering with such an industry powerhouse that shares our same mission, here’s a video from Mohawk CEO talking about his companies mission to help disabled veterans –

Mohawk CEO & his support for veterans

Nurses week – treating first responders from hospitals to the front lines; VA approved treatment of PTSD

“In 2017, we (responders1stcall) launched the 24hr Virtual Clinic, which provides pre-claim, virtual preventive solutions to companies to reduce the number and costs of worker compensation claims. This is accomplished virtually through nurse triage for workplace injuries, plus virtual medical and behavioral health consultations to address the underlying causes of many injuries such as presenteeism, i.e., at work but not focused due to illness, stress, anxiety, fear, etc.

Over the last 3 years, along with addressing presenteeism, our behavioral health clinicians provided “boots on the ground” trauma care to the Baltimore Police Department immediately after a traumatic event. Knowing the expense involved with onsite assistance and our expertise in providing virtual medical support – we thought could we offer on-demand, virtual consultations with First Responders to help them through their times of trauma? We also realized that just reaching out to the Responder was only half the solution, as the families of Responders should also have access to consultations to help them through tough situations

We built the Behavioral Health consultation program directed to First Responders and their families. It was no coincidence that a few weeks later, we were introduced to and procured the exclusive business-to-business rights to Virtual Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for North America. This proprietary combination of service gives Responders 1st Call the capability to help Responders and their families through the stress and trauma and begin to heal the brain. 

Trauma Helpline

Provides Real-Time telephonic consultation after a traumatic event with a master’s level clinician experienced in disruptive, critical incident trauma and stress management. The discussion assists mentally and physically to compartmentalize the experience and provides the First Responder with psychological first aid. These on-demand consultations offer supplemental support to peer support teams and departments. Clinicians may recommend the next steps, including Virtual Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

Virtual EMDR

A solution to archive trauma and reprocess the incident, which allows the mind to heal. The VA and Dept of Defense have endorsed EMDR as having the strongest recommendation for being an effective treatment in most clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of PTSD. Virtual EMDR is a confidential, web-based solution with unlimited access subscription, which allows the First Responder to privately conduct the VEMDR sessions in-the-moment, anywhere, any time.

Mental Health Consultations

The program offers real-time telephonic and video consultations for the First Responder and family to address and alleviate non-traumatic Behavioral Health issues at home or on-the-job such as stress, anxiety, depression, and more.”

For more info visit-

http://responders1stcall.com

or contact Cj Contractor Services by clicking below:

https://www.cjcsmex.com/contact-us

Trump vs Biden 2024 – who really represents the idea of America and the (former) Land of the Free?

This is not a political blog, this is a business blog and I’m well aware I’m supposed to avoid controversial political topics – but you know what? Sometimes I just don’t care. To rationalize this post I can tie it in to business, as I get at least a dozen notifications everyday about stocks I watch hitting their 52 week low. Then of course there’s the seemingly unrelated Roe vs Wade controversy that’s sensitive on so many levels- but one can only take so much.

Biden’s inauguration was such a mass produced fiasco in the liberal mainstream news with concerts and speeches at the Lincoln memorial- which is funny in itself, the worst democratic president in modern history giving his inauguration speech in front of the first and most famous Republican president of all times.

Then his first month in office he kills 100,000 jobs in Texas for voting for Trump in the name of environmentalism, no more keystone pipeline, reduction of fossil fuels, he replaces thousands of unnecessary regulations on businesses that Trump eliminated by executive order- and then has the gall to blame the rise of gas prices on an unforeseeable war in Russia. Maybe it wouldn’t have been unforeseeable if Democrats didn’t try to spend four years impeaching Trump for actually dealing with the Russians. But no, Biden preferred the arbitrary “line in the sand” technique employed by President Obama which resulted in the Russian annexation of Crimea in the first place.

Biden’s other first month agenda – “the risk isn’t spending too much, it’s not spending big enough” ; and the record inflation we haven’t seen since the Great Depression couldn’t have been predicted either? I’m at least staying semi-professional by not cursing here, but are you freaking serious?

Now that Roe vs Wade is being overturned Trump’s own niece is saying the midterms are clearly an important choice between democracy and the fascist right – because Republicans treat women as second class citizens by not protecting their rights to kill their own babies after 20 weeks instead of protecting the financial ability of parents who don’t kill their babies to support their children. You know who agrees with her? Out of only seven nations on the entire planet, China & North Korea – those are the grand protectors of democracy she looks up to to model our own government after. Trump’s own niece – what a slap in the face to anyone with a conscience, reason, and common sense.

It’s no wonder Biden can’t even get the newly elected president of France to take his calls, as well as the majority of other world leaders; France may have been irrelevant for the past 150 years and shifted from democracy to socialism- but they at least have enough common sense to see that Biden is an incompetent, senile moron.

What is beyond comprehension to me are the Bill Mahers and CNNs and SNLs in our once free nation that celebrated the ousting of Trump as a return to sanity and respect on the global stage. You know who doesn’t agree? The audience surrounding the global stage. I realize Trump was a bit unconventional and often admittedly “unpresidential” – an adjective that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people, me personally, I think it’s a compliment. The lunacy of leftists that experienced PTSD following Trumps election and anxiety during his time in office – yet returned to a state of relaxed bliss following Biden’s unexplainable victory two years ago…. It just leaves me speechless, almost.

Vladimir Putin was already the singular most powerful man on earth, and with a Biden White House the past two years are somehow a rise to power for Putin- incredible considering where he already was, only the spineless lunatic in the white house today could find so many ways to make him even more powerful, and I can’t even hate the man for it, if government were a game of monopoly Putin would have to cheat to lose at this point, unfortunately he has far too much pride to let the child-minded POTUS win this game.

What I don’t understand is why so many liberals found Trump’s America First doctrine so offensive. Why is it ok for every other country to be patriotic, but if an American president is patriotic he’s guilty of treason and should be removed from office?

I used to be a Libertarian in my younger years, whom in the south side with Republicans and in the north side with Democrats, so I agreed or at least understood points of view from both sides. But what happened to the party of JFK that used to do things “not because they are easy but because they are hard?” The Massachusetts liberal would roll over in his grave if he could see todays Democratic Party. How dare Whoopi Goldberg speak to me with condescension. You don’t have to agree with everyone on the other side, but how dare Hollywood accuse the Republican Party of fascism, THAT is treason. Trying to undermine the two party system with lies and condescension to grab power and print money at the expense of working families.

Shame on you, I won’t do the same and put blame on the entire Democratic Party like they do us, although one day they should learn to treat others the way they’d like to be treated. This is normally a business blog and now it’s time to get back to work; when one is minding their own business and someone comes and spews venom on them it’s sometimes necessary to shake it off and vent a little bit, so I apologize if anyone takes offense to my own personal feelings and beliefs, but that’s exactly what they are – mine, and not intended to offend anyone. However if anyone feels like they have a rational counter argument I dare you to make it make sense.

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