This Memorial Day, We Remember
From today's homepage: Afghans who saved us, a Marine's case against MAGA, diversity is a strength for the Army and more.
Memorial Day—for All Americans
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We may disagree with one another about our vision for our country, but so did the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines we honor today.
‘We Owe Them Something’
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Editor’s note: What follows are President Ronald Reagan’s remarks at Arlington National Cemetery on the morning of Memorial Day in 1986, after placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
‘Our Hearts Were Touched with Fire’
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Editor’s note: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. delivered this address to a group of Civil War veterans in Keene, New Hampshire, on Memorial Day in 1884. Not yet a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Holmes was at the time serving on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. He was also a fellow veteran of the Civil War.
I am not happy about how we left Afghanistan, and I do not blame Biden. I wish more would recall that it was Donald J. Trump who negotiated our withdrawal with the Taliban. Joe Biden only completed the task because Trump made an agreement to have the withdrawal completed AFTER his term ended. We’ll never know if Trump planned to uphold his end of the contract. Now he’s revoking the protected status of our Afghani brothers in arms and their families—typical Trump behavior. We need to win our country back from the tyranny.
I sincerely hope that someone at The Bulwark will be doing a side by side comparison of Reagan's address to what is said at Arlington today.
Also, thanks for continuing to publish Ted Johnson's 2022 piece. When it was first published, I posted that I hoped it would be rerun every year. I light of current events compared to 2022, it feels more and more like something we all need to be reminded of not just every year, but every day.