Thank You For Serving Our Country. I Wish You Hadn't Needed To.
A Quaker pacifist reflects on Memorial Day
I never quite know what to do on Memorial Day. I hardly have any veterans in my family - I have two great-uncles who fought in Vietnam, and neither comes to extended family gatherings. (Coincidence? I wonder.)
The paucity of military in my family is probably due in part to the ages of my parents and their siblings, coming…
