Regarding Memorial Day. I receive a lot of email from listservs, subscription email communities that deal with special interests. It not only cracked me up, but made me feel an odd sense of affection for people I'd never met in person.
Internet communities are funny like that.
This past Memorial Day, a number of people pitched in with their stories of wars and military service. I am reprinting a few here. Greg Brennan , who I met again a few months ago on line, and I had actually gone to junior high together when our fathers were preparing to go to Viet Nam in 1968 and we lived at Travis Air Force Base. David Bowles provided a story of how he learned the meaning of duty from his father and grandfather. Rand Flory remained an odd brand of pacifist while at war.