Remembering our heroes

Honoring the sacrifice on Memorial Day

Don't say "Happy Memorial Day."

The day isn't supposed to be happy. We aren't called to "celebrate," at least in a traditional sense.

You're supposed to reflect on the members of the military who died in action.

While a barbecue, light beer, and time on the water is great, that's also "summer." The Memorial Day holiday, coincidentally, serves as the unofficial start to summer.

The intention was that a day to memorialize the fallen should be a solemn one. The road to Hell is likewise paved with good intentions.

In the early days of the War, Confederate widows decorated the graves of the fallen Confederate and Union soldiers with flowers. Northern states adopted the practice soon after the War ended.

Memorializing those who fell in battle is probably a practice as old as war itself—so almost as old as time.

Here in America, the consen…