05/25/2026
Memorial Day isn’t about hot dogs and pool parties. It’s a day to pause and remember the people who didn’t make it home.
Long before any of us were here, ordinary people made impossible choices so that the rest of us could live ordinary lives. Generations of sons, daughters, husbands, wives, and friends never got the chance to grow old. Their families learned to carry that absence, and the rest of us inherited a country shaped by what they gave up.
Today we hold space for them. For the lives cut short, for the empty chairs, for the grief that never fully lifts. The people behind those names deserve to be remembered as people, not symbols.
So before the long weekend rolls on, take a moment. Think of someone who didn’t come home. That’s what today is for.