Mary Jo Melone: A day for forgetting
The coals in the backyard grill are cold, and the beer cans have been recycled. The patriotic songs are over, and the hyper-inflated political speeches are done. Memorial Day has passed. There is no more contradictory day on the calendar, no day when so much oratorical fiction replaces those disturbances called facts. Here’s what we say: Memorial Day is for remembrance, for the living and dead, who served and did what they were called upon to do, no matter the…
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