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"I remember"

By Dan Hull

It's Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. The day itself started as a way to honor Union soldiers who died during the American Civil War, and was expanded after World War I to include all war dead. Many Americans think of it more generally as a way to meditate on family and friends who have passed. I use it to remember two generations of Americans--and life in America so far. I think about the founders and about my parents' WWII "greatest generation". Both were feisty, determined, long-suffering, smart and brave. And Life. In the U.S. and everywhere, it's moving, painful, wonderful, unfair, funny, sad, silly, magical, profound--and in the end too important to be taken seriously. The Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini thought so, too, in his 1973 film Amarcord ("I Remember"), about growing up in small-town Italy.

Full post as published by What About Clients? on May 26, 2008 (boomark / email).