Post Memorial Day Post

I am posting this post memorial day as I don't think it's proper to do anything but remember on such a day.
Auster nails it on memorial day:
Memorial Day I’m sorry that nothing has occurred to me today to post in honor of Memorial Day. I will just say this. I hope that in the future, if American Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen must make the ultimate sacrifice, it will be for the sake of our country, and not for the sake of some utopian crackpot scheme. Imagine what George Washington would have said about George W. Bush’s attempt to democratize the Muslim world.