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Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

A Memorial Day Message from Ken Harbaugh

Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

Robert Kirk

History

4.6675 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

For many of us, Memorial Day is more than just a three day weekend. We’d like to take a moment to honor the friends and family of you, our listeners, who have paid the ultimate price for this country. We thank them for their bravery and sacrifice.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.4

Okay. I'm Ken Harbaugh, host of warriors in their own words.

1:10.5

Today, Memorial Day, is a tough one for a lot of us.

1:16.6

I'm the son, grandson, and brother of combat veterans, and a former Navy pilot myself.

1:19.6

So today has special significance.

1:23.4

But I often struggle with how to acknowledge it.

1:27.3

Is wishing someone a happy Memorial Day appropriate?

1:36.2

Every year I read angry articles and Facebook posts about how awful that phrase is, that nothing about today is happy.

1:42.1

I get it. This is a moment to honor those who died serving in our military.

1:46.4

Memorial Day is among our oldest holidays conceived in the aftermath of the Civil War. But for many Americans, it has become little more than a three-day

1:52.3

weekend, filled with backyard barbecues and door-buster sales. For those who see this day of

1:58.7

remembrance being trivialized, it is easy to take offense at the suggestion that there is anything happy about it.

2:07.0

That said, I don't recall my father or grandfather giving much thought to how they greeted their neighbors at our own backyard picnics, who was always happy Memorial Day.

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