Maybe We Need a New Memorial Day
2 min readMay 30, 2022
Every year we are supposed to spend a day saluting the men and women who died in defense of our country, a tradition which started after World War I.
I was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and I can recall Memorial Day parades in the 1950’s with the veterans of World War I still able to march down Constitution Avenue to where they had some speeches and then everyone stood around and greeted each other.