Americans may not agree on much, but we agree on Social Security.

We all pay in. It ought to be there when we need it.

Social Security could face a funding gap in less than a decade, and I don't want to see a pay cut.

I'm with AARP in the fight to protect the Social Security we earned.

Pledge to protect Social Security at AARP.org slash we earned it.

That's aARP.org slash we earned it.

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This is Seth Leapson for townhall.com.

In an age of fleeting stories fed by a constant conveyor belt of crisis and frenzy,

keeping all of us in a common state of agitation with little ability to focus on the meaningful,

let us do exactly that as we prepare for Memorial Day coming up in another weekend.

The great historian Wilfred McLeigh once wrote, quote,

Without memory and without the stories by which our memories are carried forward,

we cannot say who or what we are.

Without them, our life and thought dissolve into a meaningless, unrelated rush of events, close

quote. The commemoration of those who, in the words of James Garfield, made immortal their patriotism

and their virtue in defending this country, gave us the greatest lessons in who and what we are and with

the greatest of meaning. Who and what we are matters. Thus, the memory of them and what they did for us

matters. They are antidotes to meaninglessness. We can celebrate 250 years of our country's life

because of those we reflect on this Memorial Day. Thank God for these heroes.

I'm Seth Lucy.

Life is a song.

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