What did you do this Memorial Day? Did you go to a baseball game? (GO PHILS!) Or attend a BBQ? Did you go to the KGB Beaches Jersey Shore? Did you actually stop to remember those who died?

Have you?
Across the street from the Liberty Bell was an exhibit of graves. Each one honors a service person who has died in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

I don’t agree with this war or occupation or whatever the hell it is this week. I don’t agree with the reasoning behind it. I don’t agree with the decisions that have been made. I can’t even come out to say “Support the troops!” because I’m not sure I do. But I do support making a public show of the senseless loss of life our country has experienced.

2,500+ service people have been killed so far.
That’s 2,500+ plumbers, electricians, business men and women, athletes, chefs, doctors, lawyers, and artists. 2,500 mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters. 2,500 people who did not have to die.

And today, on the lawn of the Liberty Bell, Arlington North @ the Liberty Bell had a grave for every single one. Did you go by and see it? Did you? Did you even remember?

I went. I had to. I have friends there.

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