remembering

Just have to note that this weekend marks the unofficial start of the summer season in most minds, but Memorial Day is also a time to remember.

I think of my dad who's buried in a veterans' cemetery along with so many others of his generation. This holiday when we generally break out the barbeque stuff must be particularly difficult and painful for those families who will be honoring their sons and daughters for the first time -- or second or third.

I'd like to acknowledge all victims of war: military and civilian. My thoughts are with those who died, who survived, who were left behind, those who wait, and the forgotten.