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Ep 589: Memorial Day Isn’t About Being Sad. It’s About Remembering the Boys Right

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Education, Special Reconnaissance, Special Operations, Air Force, Pj, Combat Control, Tactical Air Control Party, Self-improvement, Fitness, Selection, Health & Fitness, Pararescue, Special Warfare, Tacp, Government, Assessment And Selection, Cct

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Peaches and Aaron sit down for a Memorial Day conversation that’s honest, reflective, hilarious, and painfully real all at the same time. The boys break down the actual meaning behind Memorial Day, the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day, and why the internet keeps turning remembrance into performative sadness instead of intentional celebration of the people we lost. They talk about friends killed in combat, training accidents, suicide, and the long list of...

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0:00.0

One's ready?

0:01.0

One's ready.

0:02.0

Go!

0:03.0

Something's got to die. We have to change what we're doing to become something greater. If you want the same results, keep doing the same thing, but that's not why you're here. here.

0:19.0

Right here. It's out there.

0:23.6

I almost step off at like an angle. The President Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Woods Ready podcast. Happy Memorial Day.

1:10.3

Happy Memorial Day. We're going to talk about Memorial Day a little bit today because you guys need some different perspective. Peaches and I handle Memorial Day a little bit differently. We're going to give everybody the space to talk about it. We're hopping right into it. We're going to do a pre-roll ad read for this after this because as we'll mention in that ad read people gave us input they don't like

1:27.6

listening to ads and we ignored it and now we just make fun of it so let's talk about memorial

1:32.5

day so it's a federal holiday it's observed on the last monday every single may it's unofficially

1:38.2

the start of summer this is when you can start wearing your white pants i believe if you're

1:42.6

fashion forward it actually has origins in the

1:44.5

Civil War era. So after the Civil War tour of the country apart, it's like 20,000, 620,000

1:50.7

Americans, which is crazy to think about. Two percent of the U.S. population at the time,

1:56.4

the war's aftermath communities across the North and South began decorating graves with flowers,

2:00.6

Reese flags as acts of remembrance.

2:03.5

It expanded.

2:04.7

It was only in the union for a little bit,

2:06.5

and then it became,

2:07.4

went from Decorations Day to 1971.

2:09.6

The Uniform Monday Holiday Act made it a federal holiday on the last Monday in May.

2:14.0

And that's how we got Memorial Day.

2:16.4

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