Hi, everybody. Welcome to Scoop where you get the inside scoop on the news week ahead. I'm so

grateful that you're here as we enter into the final week of May. And speaking of Scoops, here's

the scoop on May. I always thought that May was the Goldilocks of months. Didn't matter

where you lived. It wasn't too hot outside. It's not too cold. It's my

birthday month. There's a lot of things to look forward to in May until I had school-aged children.

And now I understand why people talk about May with that sigh that comes with it. It's May.

And sort of that fear on their face. It's because there are any

number of things that are happening to you on a regular basis, schedule changes, activities,

sports. You know, you might learn that your child's not in school for half a day here or there,

like 24 hours in advance. It's just chaos. It's total chaos. So I'm making this as a public service announcement,

one, to empathize with those of you who are also in that period of May, and also just to inform

others that, hey, if you're not getting a text back or you're getting a missed meeting, things are

going on with someone, you're wondering, why are they not getting back to me?

It might be May. May may be the reason. And so we have to give each other a little bit of grace. We're at the finish line here of school. Some of you go a little further than May. Some of you may already be out. For us, we're right in the thick of it. So the seatbelt is buckled. and we're just going to try to get through.

We're linking elbows here and we're going to get through the final week of bay.

So a lot to look forward to, of course, going into summer and hopefully a lot of adventures for your family ahead, trips, maybe something like that.

But this is really sort of that unofficial beginning of summer and the anticipation is also there. Everybody's sort of exhausted with the school year, including the teachers, which we totally understand. And here we are. So we have a lot of big news stories to look at this week as well. But I want to start a little bit different. A lot of people are going to end the week with coverage about Memorial Day, and I want to begin the week that way. Because by the time we get to Thursday or Friday,

we're probably already off on our weekend plans. And it's a really nice moment just to remind each

other about why do we even have Memorial Day? What is it all about? And as I've discovered in my

reporting, which, by the way, smarter news completely inspired, although I'm married to a military man and didn't have a lot of experience with the military ahead of that, besides my grandfather being a war correspondent for the Associated Press, you know, Memorial Day was always sort of associated with my birthday because it came around the same time of year. We knew there was a three-day weekend, but having a real personal connection to Memorial Day didn't happen until later in my life. So you may be like me in that way. And I didn't really ever look into the history. Smarter News has inspired me in so many ways, just to look a little closer as to why are we doing this? What is this all about? One of the things that I've discovered about Memorial Day is like so many things

that we celebrate or so many points in history where you think, oh, there's this one event

that led to this one day, which now we all celebrate. It's not really like that. There's

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