You and your brothers are our memorial. Your children will be our memorials. Put the flags out on Memorial Day and on Veterans' Day, but don't make a fuss about us. Reasonable people know of the great sacrifice made. They appreciate it.
Reasonable people remember.
They remember that those sacrifices were made for the preservation of a way of life, for the future, for children. Reasonable people look to the future as they remember the past. Momma and Daddy would have liked their generation to be remembered for curing polio, controlling the spread of tuberculosis and eradicating smallpox. Arguably, these are just as great accomplishments for the future as winning the war. They would, as many of their generation would, consider the memorial that is being contemplated to be a waste of good money that could be used for children, for the future that they assured, by their great sacrifice, that we could enjoy.