Good evening.

This Memorial Day was, in many ways, a study in contrast, perhaps more than ever, because

in today's traditional Memorial Day mix of official remembrances for those who died serving

this country in the armed forces and parties marking the unofficial start of summer, there

were contrasts within contrasts as the coronavirus death toll approaches 100,000 Americans killed.

The president today, Arlington National Cemetery, the man running against him, former Vice President

Joe Biden, at a veterans memorial in Delaware.

Then wearing a mask, one not.

Contrasting signals or perhaps contrasting priorities.

As for the Vietnam Memorial, with the names of 58,000 service members killed over the 19

years of that conflict, two contrasting traditions remembering the dead, but preserving life.

A virtual ceremony was held online so those who survived the war might also survive this.

Contrasting signs as well and how the Commander-in-Chief chose to conduct himself in his moment,

in this moment as a self-described wartime president, today at Fort McHenry in Maryland,

reading prepared remarks he sounded like any other president on any other Memorial Day.

As one nation, we mourn alongside every single family that has lost loved ones, including

the families of our great veterans.

Together, we will vanquish the virus, and America will rise from this crisis to new and

even greater heights.

Well that was at 5 past 12 in Maryland.

At 234 on Twitter, the president called Pennsylvania congressmen and Marine Corps veteran Connor

Lamb quote an American fraud.

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