Corporatizing and Militarizing Memorial Day for "Fun" and Profit

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(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: The National Guard, Adam Pigott Photography)

Since the beginning of the 20th century, some 650,000 Americans have died fighting this country's many wars.

Regardless of political affiliation and ideology, every American ought reverence such selfless sacrifice and understand and share the grief that this tragic loss of life entails.

Though those of us who have known war hear the cries of the dying forever in our mind and suffer the pain and loss each day of our lives and need no holiday to remind us, Memorial Day is the occasion our nation sets aside to remember, to grieve and to honor those who have sacrificed their lives on behalf of "freedom."

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