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On this Friday, I sincerely hope you have a fun Memorial Day weekend.

We all need some relief from the pandemic and now that relief is in sight if you are

vaxed, so enjoy yourself. But the theme of the Memorial Day weekend is not light-hearted.

It's knowing the people who died protecting us in war, knowing about their sacrifice and

honoring it. Now, there are many, many situations of people being killed in defense of

liberty. But some of them are mass. Some of them we don't really understand, like the

Vietnam War. Conscripted Americans were sent to Vietnam to protect the Vietnamese people

from the advancing communists. Now, we pulled out of Vietnam. We did not lose that war

militarily. We pulled out because it was just out of control. And now the Vietnamese

are under the thumb of the communists who deny all freedom.

This weekend, you might consider the best war film I've ever seen, Saving Private Ryan,

which is very vivid in what war is really about. Now, I've seen real war, Central and South

America. I know what it looks like. But this weekend, I am taking time out to honor and

pray for the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives for us. Now this.

This is Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer. By now, you've probably heard of

my podcast, The President's Daily Brief. We travel around the world talking about the

most pressing news of the day. And the goal is to take complicated issues, both here and

abroad, and make them really simple to understand. We also talk about solutions to the problems

that we discuss, just like the actual brief delivered to the President each day in the

Oval Office. So download and subscribe to The President's Daily Brief, available on all

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