Memorial Day 2021

Memorial Day is the most expensive holiday of the year.

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Every hot dog, every burger, every spin around the lake, drink with friends and family is a debt purchased by others.

This is not about all who’ve served…that day comes in the fall.

Today is in honor of those who paid in life and blood; whose moms never saw them again, whose dads wept in private, whose wives raised kids alone, and whose kids only remembered them from pictures.

This isn’t simply a day off. This is a day to remember – that others paid for every free breath you ever get to take. Freedom.

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