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What does Memorial Day mean?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Image from website of the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance.  Last year on Memorial Day, I posted the following piece on the topic. I agree with the posting as much today as last year.  Intervening since the 2007 Memorial Day was my father's fiftieth West Point reunion yesterday, which I attended with my wife and boy. Unlike the forty-fifth reunion, this time I was checked for my identification twice, and told (not asked) to pop open my trunk; were I there for any other reason, I would have opted to leave rather than to experience such an invasion of my privacy.  In one of the buildings, I saw a poster with Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower, proclaiming something along the lines of: "We don't just teach military history here , but have taught many who have made such history...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 26, 2008 (boomark / email).