Road Trip Through History: Lest We Forget

On Memorial Day, My Own True Love and I make sure we attend a service in honor of the fallen. This year we were in Normandy on Memorial Day, enjoying a D-Day tour. In some ways, the entire tour was an extended Memorial Day experience, defined by General John Logan, the holiday’s founder, as “cherishing…

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From the Archives: The First Memorial Day

The Memorial Day weekend is peeking over our shoulders– and deadlines are breathing down my neck.  Instead of scrambling to produce new posts for today and next Tuesday, I’ve decided to re-run a couple of thematically appropriate posts from the archive.  I hope you enjoy them.  I’ll be back with new content on June 6. …

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From the Archives: The First Memorial Day

We’re heading into Memorial Day weekend here in the United States: a time to remember soldiers fallen in our country’s service.  Instead of writing a new post on the subject, I’ve chosen to share this one again.  For the record, My Own True Love and I plan to attend Chicago’s Memorial Day parade tomorrow–a first…

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