The Huffington Post posted a very well written piece on Memorial Day by Robert L. Dilenschneider. Here is part – Memorial Day 2015 is next Monday, and most of us have plans for the holiday weekend: enjoying the first taste of summer, entertaining with friends, or just relaxing. This will always be part of what the Memorial Day weekend is all about.
The other part, as we all know, is about honoring this country’s fallen heroes. We live in the greatest nation in the world only because time and time again brave men and women have been willing to fight for the freedoms we all too often take for granted.
Right now the U.S. has 1,473,900 men and women on active duty. Nearly 10,000 are in Afghanistan and Iraq. Others are deployed as follows: Continue reading – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-dilenschneider/memorial-day-2015-a-day-t_b_7336782.html