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Originally Posted by Gmountain
Memorial Day honors the nation's war dead, those that died while serving in the Armed Forces.
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You're right,of course, but it's "...those
who died..." Not normally a grammar cop but in this case I need to distinguish a living person from an inanimate thing.
I personally know of no one who died in a military conflict that I can honestly say I cared about. Kind of a silly way to go when you think about it long enough but any death will do that regardless of circumstances. Other than of natural causes, humanity takes much entertainment in all forms of courting death whether in war or recreation so I tend to group them together when cause/effect is considered. Basically, never felt much about it one way or the other because of that. Even when I was in uniform and at risk I still didn't. I was "in the business of" and left it at that.
Then one day found myself standing on the USS Arizona Memorial and that all changed.