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Home » Blog » Blogs » What's Memorial Day All About Anyway?

What's Memorial Day All About Anyway?

May 29, 2010 //  by Nancy Rabinowitz Friedman//  Leave a Comment

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USMCMemorial Day. It’s the unofficial start to summer.  The bbq’s, the beach, the traffic.  But do you know what Memorial Day is really about? Memorial Day, since the time of the Civil War, is a day set aside in remembrance of the members of the armed forces who gave their lives in service to this country.

I have to admit.  Until this year, I hadn’t given much thought to why we celebrated Memorial Day.  I was just glad for a long weekend.  But this year, things are different.  This year, Memorial Day falls during Fleet Week here in New York.  And that means that all over the city, there are thousands of actual members of the armed forces walking around.  And you know how they all look?  Young. They look like somebody’s kids.  Sure there’s the occasional officer who looks like a bona fide grown up.  But mostly, they look like innocents — innocence. They look so happy, and hopeful, and full of promise.  And they’re all serving their country — willing to fight for it – for us.

Memorial Day commemorates people just like them. Young people from generations past who served our country, and gave their lives for it.  It commemorates people from this generation — 4400 of them who gave their lives in Iraq, and 1086 of them who died in Afghanistan. 

These young people  in New York for Fleet Week  enjoying the weather, the freedom, the sights — – they could be next.  It’s a sobering thought,  and one I hope you give at least a moment to this Memorial Day. 

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About Nancy Rabinowitz Friedman

Nancy Rabinowitz Friedman is a married mother of ten year old boy/girl twins living in NYC. She is a third generation Manhattanite who loves to travel -- as long as she knows she'll eventually make it back to the greatest city in the world. An award-winning television writer, Nancy spent nearly 20 years as a freelancer working for Lifetime, HBO, Showtime, ESPN, A&E, Nickelodeon -- just to name a few. Her humor essays on motherhood have been syndicated in the online versions of The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, and The Charlotte Observer, in the multiple award-winning Brain, Child magazine, in the anthologies The Knitters Gift (Avalon Press 2005) and The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater (Seal Press 2007).
Nancy blogs about momming, aging, and her 20 year quest to lose the same 10 pounds at FromHiptoHousewife.com. She has a weekly podcast with three friends, The Blogging Angels.

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