Writing about any “act of kindness” that did not include an observance of Memorial Day would feel trivial today. We decided to go as a family to attend a service this morning. Since we had not actually done this before, we searched the newspaper for something that was local and we found one less than a mile from our house. It was being held at a monument that we had passed hundreds of times, but never stopped to look at.
The memorial honored two soldiers from our town who had died in the second world war. Their bodies were never recovered. The service poignant and was it difficult to hear that this country is losing almost 1200 World War II veterans a day. My dad is a veteran of that war.
It took the commitment to this project for us to discover a monument we pass almost daily. And while our family will continue to associate Memorial Day with the start of summer and burgers on the grill, our experience today will insure that we also keep in mind those who died for this country as well as their families who miss them.
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