May 25, 2026

Memorial Day: The Graves We Forgot and the Sacred Cost of Freedom

Memorial Day: The Graves We Forgot and the Sacred Cost of Freedom
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Memorial Day: The Graves We Forgot and the Sacred Cost of Freedom
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Memorial Day was never supposed to be just a long weekend, a barbecue, or the unofficial start of summer. Before it became a federal holiday, Memorial Day was known as Decoration Day, a time when Americans decorated the graves of fallen soldiers with flowers, flags, and remembrance. It was born out of the grief of the Civil War, when families across the country were forced to face the terrible cost of division, sacrifice, and freedom. In this episode of Broadcasting Seeds, Bennett Tanton explores the real meaning of Memorial Day, its roots in Decoration Day, the connection to Waterloo, New York, the National Moment of Remembrance, and the deeper spiritual question behind it all: What happens to a nation when it forgets the people who died so it could remain free? This is not about shallow patriotism. It is about memory, sacrifice, gratitude, grief, and the soul of America.

Before the barbecue, before the sales, before the noise, remember the graves.

At 3:00 p.m. local time on Memorial Day, Americans are encouraged to pause for one minute to honor those who died in service to the United States.

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We like the heroic movie version of life right. We

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like the slow motion flagshot waving, the swelling music. But

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Memorial Day asks us to do something way harder, and

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it asked us to mourn. It asks us to look

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at that cost. It asked us to admit that our

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freedoms were preserved by people who lost everything. That kind

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of remembrance should humble us, not puff us up, not

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make us arrogant, not make us worship the state, but

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humble us, because there's a big difference between patriotism and idolatry.

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Broadcast they self in the minds of the.

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What if I told you Memorial Day was not created

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for hot dogs, mattress sales, and three day weekends. What

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if I told you began with flowers on braves, with widows,

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with mothers, with children standing beside headstones that had names

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carved into them, but no fathers were coming home. What

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if I told you that one of the most dangerous

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things a nation can do is forget, forget the people

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who died so that nation could keep breathing. Because Memorial

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Day is not just a holiday, It is at a

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test of memory, a test of gratitude, a test of

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whether America still understands that liberty is not free, peace

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is not guaranteed, and freedom does not survive in a

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culture that cannot remember what it costs. Today, on Broadcasting Seeds,

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we are digging into Memorial Day, Decoration Day, in the

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Civil War, roots of American remembrance, the sacred power of

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honoring the dead, and the uncomfortable question we need to

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ask ourselves as Americans today. Have we become a nation

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that enjoys the benefits of sacrifice while forgetting the people

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who made it. Welcome back to Broadcasting Seeds. I'm Benettantin,

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and today this episode is a little different. This is

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not going to be a political rant. It is not

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going to be a shallow patriotic speech, and it is

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definitely not going to be one of those let's all

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remember the troops moments. That sounds nice for five seconds,

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but then it just disappears the second the grille gets

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fired up. No, today we are talking about Memorial Day,

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not Veterans' Day, not Armedforces Day. Memorial Day, the day

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set aside to honor those who died in service to

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this country, the ones who did not get to come home,

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the ones whose families got a folded flag instead of

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an actual reunion with their loved ones, the ones whose

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stories ended so that our stories, other stories could continue.

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And I think we need to talk about this because

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America frankly has a memory problem. We remember trends, we

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remember scandals, we remember sports stats, right, we remember celebrity drama,

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we remember the algorithm. But do we remember the dead?

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Do we remember the people buried in national cemeteries, small

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town graveyards and foreign soil and forgotten family plots? Do

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we remember the Civil War soldiers who gave birth to

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this day of remembrance? Do we remember marines, soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardians,

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the coast guardmen who died in wars that most Americans

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now only know through movies and freaking memes and half

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remembered history classes. That is what we are digging into today,

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because remembrance is not nostalgia. Remembrance is spiritual discipline, and

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forgetting is not harmless, folks, It's not harmless. Memorial Day

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was born from grief. It actually began as Decoration Day.

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That name matters, So Decoration Day was not about decorating

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homes and cars or storefronts. It was about decorating graves.

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Flowers were laid on the resting places of soldiers who

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died in the Civil War. That war tore the country

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apart and left more than six people's These numbers six

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hundred and twenty thousand dead. Think about that number for

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one second. That is not just the statistic. That was fathers, sons, brothers, husbands,

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neighbors and friends. General John A. Logan, leader of the

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Grand Army of the Republic, issued a call in eighteen

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sixty eight for Americans to decorate the graves of Union soldiers,

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the first major national observice. That happened in May thirtieth,

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eighteen sixty eight. That is the historical route, but the

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emotional root is way deeper. I mean, America was straight

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up bleeding. I talked about this in an episode I

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did on Gettysburg. Not that long ago. Go check it out.

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But America was bleeding. I mean, families were shattered because

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brothers fought on opposite sides of this fight. In many instances,

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communities were split. The country had survived, but survival came

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with a graveyard attached to it. So the people went

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to the cemeteries and they brought flowers, and they spoke names,

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they remembered. There's something powerful about that because in scripture,

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memory is not passive, it's active. The people of Israel,

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we're constantly told to remember, Remember the Lord, Remember the Covenant,

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Remember the deliverance from Egypt. Remember what happened when you forgot.

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In other words, memory is not just about the past.

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Memory actually shapes the future. When a nation forgets rightly,

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it starts living wrongly. And then so Waterloo, New York,

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and the battle over memory. And here is where this

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gets interesting for us in New York. Waterloo, New York,

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is officially recognized as one of the birthplaces of Memorial Day,

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and in nineteen sixty six, New York State recognized Waterloo

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by proclamation, and Congress followed with recognition that same year.

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Now there are other communities that claim earlier observances. That

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is part of the story. Memorial Day did not fall

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out of the sky fully formed, Okay, It rose up

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from local acts of grief and remembrance across the country.

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Different towns honored their dead, different families decorated graves, different

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communities created rituals. And honestly, that makes the story more

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powerful because Memorial Day was not invented by a marketing

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team or an agency. It was not built by a

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brand strategist. Right, It was not cooked up by a

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government office trying to create a three day weekend. It

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came from the people. It came from grief. It came

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from widows and veterans and families who understood that if

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the dead were not remembered, the living would become careless.

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That is the real warning. A nation does not usually

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forget all at once. It forgets slowly, one sale at

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a time, one party at a time. It's sadly, one

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generation at a time, until the sacred becomes ordinary, until

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sacrifice becomes just absolute background noise, until Memorial Day becomes

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the unofficial start of summer. Right, and listen, I'm not

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against barbecues. Look do I look do people that look

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like this? They're not against grilled meat, folks. I am

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a big fan of grilled meat. I am not trying

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to outlaw hamburgers here. Let's not get freaking crazy. But

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if the barbecue replaces the grave, frankly, we have a problem.

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The difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day. This is

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where a lot of people get confused. Then people will

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look at me and be like, thank you for your

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service and absolutely my pleasure. But Veterans Day honors all

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those who served another one, all forces. Armed Forces Day

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honors those currently serving. Memorial Day today honors those who

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died in service, and that difference matters. Memorial Day is

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not primarily about thinking living veterans, although you should thank

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veterans every day. Most veterans will tell you that it

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is about remembering the fall one that empty chair and

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the folded flag, or the name on the wall, the

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stone in the cemetery, the family that kept living after

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someone they loved did not come home. And this is

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important because we live in a culture that likes inspiration,

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but they avoid grief at all costs. We like the

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heroic movie version of life right. We like the slow

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motion flag shot waving, the swelling music. But Memorial Day

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asks us to do something way harder. And it asked

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us to mourn. It asked us to look at that car.

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It asks us to admit that our freedoms were preserved

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by people who lost everything. That kind of remembrance should

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humble us, not puff us up, not make us arrogant,

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not make us worship the state, but humble us because

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there's a big difference between patriotism and idolatry. Folks. Patriotism

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says I love my country and I honor those who

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sacrificed for it. That's patriotism. Idolatry says my country can

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do it, can do no wrong. Memorial Day should not

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make us blind, it should make us sober. I believe

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there's a spiritual war against remembrance. Here's the broadcasting seeds

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a part. Okay, there is a spiritual war war against memory.

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I really believe that, because people who remember are harder

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to manipulate. People who remember the cost of freedom are

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really hard to enslave. Because people who remember sacrifice are

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harder to turn into shallow consumers, people who remember they're

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dead are harder to detach from their inheritance. That is

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why every totalitarian system attacks memory. It rewrites history, It

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destroys and tears down monuments. It changes the language, it

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changes it mocks tradition, and it severs people from their

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fathers and mothers. It teaches every generation to despise the

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one before it, and eventually people no longer know who

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they are. This is not an accident. A memoryless people

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are absolutely simple so easy to control. So this is

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one of the reasons Memorial Day matters. Not because America

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is perfect, because we're not, and because people humans are

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not perfect. America is not perfect. Not because every war

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was wise, because it wasn't. It's not. They still aren't.

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Every war was not wise. Not because every leader is

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righteous or was righteous, because they are not. But because

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the people who died are not abstractions. These are not

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policy positions, They are not hashtags. Man, They're human beings.

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They were human beings and many of them believed they

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were standing between their home and something worse. And I'm

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sorry that deserves reverence. It freaking deserves at least a

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moment of silence. It deserves memory, the national moment of remembrance.

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So every day, at three pm local time, whatever time

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that is, Americans are encouraged to pause for a national

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moment of remembrance just one minute, folks, sixty freaking seconds.

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And that sounds small, but in a distracted age, silence

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is rebellion an a noisy age, remembrance frankly is warfare

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and a cultural In a culture addicted to movement, stopping

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becomes sacred. So here's my challenge to you on Memorial Day.

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Enjoy your family, eat the food, laugh with your people,

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be freaking grateful. But at three pm stop, put your

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phone down, turn the music off, Tell your kids what

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the day actually means. Say a prayer. If you were inclined,

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speak the names of those that you may know, If

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you know anyone that you may know, and if you

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do not know any names, then remember the unknowns, the

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ones buried far from home, the ones lost at sea,

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the ones whose bodies were never ever recovered, and the

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ones whose families never got answers, the ones whose stories

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ended in mud, sand, jungle, snow, ocean, fire, and and steal.

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I beg you give them one minute, because they gave everything.

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They gave you everything. So do not on this Memorial Day.

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Do not let the machine steal the meaning. Do not

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let the sales, the noise, the algorithms, the politics, or

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the distractions turn a sacred day into just another long weekend.

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Memorial Day began with graves with flowers, with names, with

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a nation trying to remember what war had taken from it.

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And maybe that is exactly what we need again. Not

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performative patriotism, folks, not empty slogans. Not shallow outrage, but

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actual remembrance. Real remembrance, the kind that actually humbles you.

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I know that's hard for some people. The kind that

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makes you freaking grateful attitude, the kind that makes you ask,

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am I living in a way that honors what was

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actually handed to me? Because that's inherited? Because freedom is inherited,

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but it is not automatic. Liberty can pass down, but

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it can also absolutely be squandered. The first step towards

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losing it is forgetting what it actually cost. Remember that

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we all have skin in the game. This has been

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broadcasting seeds. If this episode made you think, share it

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with someone who needs to hear it before a Memorial

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Day becomes just another sale, another cookout, or another day off.

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And this Memorial Day today at three pm, I need

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you to pause, remember the fallen. Some of these guys

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are my friends, some of them are my family. Say

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your prayer, and then I challenge you to live like

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the sacrifice actually meant something. Have a good day.

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There's a flag sat in there.

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And a feud outside of town where the morning comes up, cry.

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And the whole world settles down.

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There's a mother with her hair on a stone. She

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knows you well nor she never got to say louder

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than the belt, And we.

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Keep move it faster like the past is justa goes.

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Some names were carved in marble, so we never let

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them go.

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So before the flower your side, before the region, it's

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as before the smoke and summer songs wash away.

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The reason we are here, say their names loud, Let

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the silence haveage lice.

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We are stadding in.

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The freedom they never got to change.

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Before the flower.

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Faith there's a folded piece of heaven in a box

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upon the shelf, and a picture in the hallway of

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a kid who looked like her, but he smiled. He

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was fearless, wrote home when he could.

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Said doorry, mom, I'm.

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Doing fine, like every soldiering. Now the years.

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Keep turning pages and the headlines coming go with some

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story sending sacrifice.

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So somebody else got up. So before the fine, before

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the way, Jane disappears, before the smoke, just summer songs.

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Why the way, the reason we are here, say their

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names loud, Let the silence salvage flies.

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We are standing in.

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The freedom they never got to chaste.

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Before the flowers.

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Maybe we've been sleeping, Maybe we forgotten that liberty has fingerprints.

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The freedom has a cost. Maybe every head stone is

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a warning and a prayer.

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Say it, Live like it still matters, Leave like someone

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left you.

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Then not on aways, sit not all a love cooy

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from the ones who gave tomorrow where the breath bights

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ook today.

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So before the flower's fate, before the weekend disappears.

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Before the smoke.

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In summer songs wash away the reason Saturday.

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So loud, Let the silence savage place.

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We are standing in the freedom.

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They never got, said side, before the flow of spy

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be God rice, before we lost.

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From the stone, said fla silent name.

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Sound loud, lad.

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The silence sound that place.

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We are standing in the freedom they never got to change.

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Before the flowers faith. There's a flag beside a name

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in a field outside of town. And if memory is holy,

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then we kneel on sacred ground.

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