MEMORIAL DAY MUSINGS
May 28th, 2010 categories: Lifestyle, Rants
Chicago is absolsutely insane with Blackhawk Stanley Cup Fever–the Asian Foo Dogs in front of the Peninsula Hotel are wearing Blackhawk jerseys. The statue of Michael Jordan in front of the United Center is wearing a Hawk jersey, helmet and even skates! And I’ve heard a report that the Art Institute lions are Hawk fans too! I even ran into a mini-rally in the lobby of one of our toniest mixed-use buildings. This collective lunacy set me to wondering about Memorial Day. In Chicago it is the first warm weather holiday and this year’s weather seems to be extraordinarily fine. Are we as a nation so diverted by things like the Blackhawks and a perfect weather three-day holiday that we forget the real reason we have this holiday. I am old enough to have lived through a few wars and war really is hell. Hopefully we won’t be so caught up in our own pleasures that we forget the thousands of our nation’s finest young men and women who made it possible to live in this glorious country–not perfect–the best in the world. Do we want anyone else’s imperfections? I don’t and I bet you don’t either. So at some time in the next three days, let’s remember our fallen heroes either formally or informally. We owe them a debt of gratitude.
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