It's not too late to post a memorial day message, is it?

I know.  I've failed again.

But, this was what I posted on facebook for memorial day, and since we're still within a week of the holiday, I can still post this.  I have been fortunate enough to have not lost any close friends.  But I know far too many who have been lost, and I fear that their sacrifice has become second or third tier to the holiday, its festivities, and internet-era politics.  Even worse, we are quickly losing the WWII and Korea generation, and their lessons.  Soon we will begin to lose our Vietnam veterans.  Public school history classes don't teach much about these conflicts, because, well... because they'd rather be suspending kids for making their pop tarts look like guns.  I wish I had been older, and able to talk to my Grandpa Jackman about his experiences in the Pacific.

So, all that being said, please enjoy this.  Maybe if we could truly understand the human cost of war, and actually remember it, we would be less apt to engage in "politics by other means."