The National Moment of Remembrance encourages all Americans to pause wherever they are at 3:00 pm local time on Memorial Day for a minute of silence to remember and honor those who have died in service to the nation. Carmella LaSpada, the founder of the Moment of Remembrance states: “It’s a way we can all help put the memorial back in Memorial Day.”
Arlington National Cemetery -- photo by W.A. Cherry, Jr., 2013
All the dead of all the wars
Like the women of Columbus, Mississippi in 1865, I look
around the world and think of the dead soldiers of all the wars that have ever
happened. I think of those who were “enemies,” dead and buried either at home
or abroad, and I think they all need to be remembered. What better day to
remember the sacrifices of all those who fought and died for what they believed
to be right, or at the command of their leaders right or wrong, than the day we
honor our own?
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