Happy Memorial Day

My dad is in Section 64 at Arlington Cemetery,
near the 9/11 Memorial.

5 Things on a Friday: Are Non-Partisan Politics a Thing?

This week’s post comes back to politics, though I hope not in a particularly partisan way.  I’ve definitely done partisan politics on the blog, but with notable exceptions, the point of this column has always been to talk about what’s going on and why I think it’s important.  Ideally, that’s not the same as me telling you what you should think.  Of course, your mileage may vary.

Reality is that we all have opinions, and while some are clearly wrong, it’s just as clearly no use trying to explain that to anybody.  This column is therefore a study of what caught my eye in a week’s worth of new.  This comes hopefully without preaching, either to the converted or to the heathen masses.

Memorial Day

Memorial Day: Remembering My Father

Reflections on Memorial Day

I should have stayed off of Facebook on Friday.  But I finished putting 5 Things on a Friday together when I was still about twenty minutes out from New York, and with that bit of time to kill, I toggled over, and there it was.  All of my friends were putting up pictures for Memorial Day, our fallen from my class or others from other classes.  I immediately flashed over and started thinking about my dad.  It's become a little easier in the last few years, but on Friday it hit me hard and left me in a sour mood for most of the rest of the day.

Me and my father, 1995 or '96.

Memorial Day: A Veteran's Point of View

From one of my classmates. #USMA #USMAGrad #MemorialDay http://t.co/fkaDcaIMkN
— Dan (@Dan_T_Head) May 23, 2014

The piece is going into the Washington Post as an OpEd on Sunday.

Stratford Memorial Day Parade, 2013

My favorite thing about the Stratford Memorial Day Parade is that it seems like half the town marches in it while the other half watches.  My girls marched with the Girl Scouts this year, and they even had a float!

Pics are after the jump!