Remember our men & women who served this Memorial Day

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4. Memorial Day is not Veterans Day!

This is a commemoration of sacrifice and death -- and reconciliation.
It is as much an anti-war observation as a honoring of those who paid the ultimate price for a great cause.

It is not meant to be yet another praise-day for every person whoever put on a military uniform.

Women Created Memorial Day!
https://www.nwhm.org/blog/women-and-memorial-day/

"The object of this meeting is to initiate a Memorial Association…that shall perpetuate in an honorable manner the memory of the gallant dead…

Our society has forgotten that women cleaned up the mess. They took the gruesome reality of approximately a half-million dead men, and by promoting cemeteries, led the way in turning blood and gore into something that encouraged serenity and reflection."