“[Memorial Day is] the most expensive holiday on the calendar.  Every hot dog, every burger, every spin around the lake, or drink with friends and family…is a debt…purchased by others.  This is not about all who’ve served…that day comes in the fall.  This one is in honor of those who paid in life and blood; whose moms ever saw them again, whose dads wept in private, whose wives raised kids alone, and whose kids only remembered them from pictures.  This isn’t simply a day off. This is a day to remember – that others paid for every free breath you ever get to take.
Freedom.”
– Brit Hume
Pic creds: Guard Tronic’s own Data Entry Manager, Meredith Brown.  Arlington National Cemetery, 2003.