A history lesson

Memorial Day is about the dead.  Its original name was Decoration Day, when people went to cemeteries to clear away winter debris and decorate soldiers' graves with spring flowers; that's why it happens in May.  Decoration Day began after the Civil War because thousands of soldiers were buried far from home, with no family members to tend their graves.  The task was assumed by local people, usually women.

Whatever else it has become -- the beginning of summer, the occasion for an appliance sale, an auto race or the end of a three-day weekend -- Memorial Day is still about the dead.  It is not the time for a semi-literate tweet bragging about the economy and finishing "Nice!"  More like this:

"We can never truly repay the debt we owe our fallen heroes.  But we can remember them, honor their sacrifice, and affirm in our own lives the enduring ideals of justice, equality, and opportunity for which generations of Americans have given that last full measure of devotion."

Typical Obama -- has to plagiarize Lincoln.  Why does he hate America?