Paraphrasing Andy Rooney’s eloquent Memorial Day message:
Those who lose their sons, daughters, parents or best friend in a war rarely ever set aside a special day or moment to remember their loved ones. The memories of lives cut short can flit in and out of their minds any time, any day … in the middle of ordinary chores. For the rest of us, who rarely spare a thought to calculating the human cost of war, Memorial Day ought to be a day that looks to the future instead of the past .
"Remembering doesn’t do the remembered any good, of course. It’s for ourselves, the living. I wish we could dedicate Memorial Day, not to the memory of those who have died at war, but to the idea of saving the lives of the young people who are going to die in the future if we don’t find some new way – some new religion maybe – that takes war out of our lives.
That would be a Memorial Day worth celebrating."
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