LETTER: Honoring the dead on Memorial Day
May 29, 2020 - 9:00 pm
Thanks for your Monday editorial, “Honoring those who died to defend our freedoms.” I suggest a corollary opinion headlined “Honoring those 100,000 who died when ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ were lost due to intentional political ignorance.”
These folks didn’t die in a formal war. But their numbers are approaching all those who did die in the wars for democracy: Korea, Vietnam, Beirut, Grenada, Panama, Persian Gulf, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan.