AND SO BEGINS the strangest Memorial Day Weekend in anyone’s memory. Usually a time of family gatherings, cookouts and the unofficial start of summer, this year, it's a mixed bag of face-masked, social-distancing recommendations where we have to resist the natural urge to congregate.
As for Memorial Day observances, our concerns about COVID-19 lend themselves to greater reflection, and that’s a good part of this changed way of how to honor our nation’s fallen.
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