MEMORIAL DAY
The best way to honor those who have fallen in this terrible war is to bring the troops home.

For me, like most other Americans, Memorial Day is a time for barbecuing, playing Frisbee, loading up coolers with iced beer, and getting out of town. I usually don't think about America's war dead on the last weekend of May any more than I think about our nation's independence on the Fourth of July, or about the birth of Jesus on Christmas. No, my memorial days are scattered and irregular. It is monuments that have most often triggered reveries about fallen soldiers. The words "Is it nothing to you?" inscribed on the great gray World War I obelisk in downtown Vancouver, Canada, stopped me in my tracks late on a summer afternoon many years ago. I had not known this biblical phrase from Lamentations, never seen it on a war memorial before. Maybe it's a British thing. But for whatever reason, it arrested me, and...
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