Assorted Memorial Day Observations

With celebrations, warehouse sales and even fireworks, one wonders if anyone cares to remember the "memorial" in Memorial Day anymore.

If you are looking for a jump-start to put you in the right frame of mind, may we refer you to three sources:


* A moving and powerful multimedia slide show to be found at nytimes.com or in picture in the Sunday, May 29, New York Times in the "Week in Review": Tending to the Tombs of the Known....It is the rare undertaker or priest who sees as many coffins in a day as the soldiers who make up the Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery".
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/weekinreview/?8qa

* Rolling Thunder: A Moving Tribute to MIAs: Each Memorial Day, the bikers of "Rolling Thunder" ride their motorcycles into the nation's capital to call attention to soldiers still missing in action. The tribute raises consciousness... and money... for veteran's causes. NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday's Producer Ned Wharton and sound engineer Daniel Shukhin put together an audio postcard from this year's event.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5436160


* Editorial - "Remembering and Forgetting", New York Times, Editorial Page, May 29, 2006:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/29/opinion/29mon2.html


* "Now, Memory Fails Us - Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong With the Statues of Monumental Washington", By Paul Richard, The Washington Post; Sunday, May 28, 2006; Page N01:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052600364.html