Memorial Day Tribute

I hope all of our American readers are spending this memorial day wisely. Since it's change of calibration date, from the 30th to the last Monday of the month, the day has had a decrease in recognition (seen only as a three-day weekend).
Let us all pause for a second, setting aside our political differences, and think of those who have served and died in our nations name. Maybe a brother or sister or friend? Or like in my case, grandfathers, and great grandfathers.

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.

-Moina Michael (1918)