MEMORIAL DAY has become -- in the minds of some -- a day devoted to uncovering their swimming pools and barbeques. So take a moment (preferably at 3 p.m. local time) to remember what it's really about. The Mudville Gazette is posting tributes to the fallen from a number of wars, plus items like William Wyler's footage of the last mission of the Memphis Belle, Alfred Hitchcock's footage of the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp, and Frank Capra's Oscar-winning Prelude To War. The Wikipedia entry for Memorial Day notes a race track connection unrelated to the Indy 500. It's a good day -- as good as we are liekly to get -- for Sgt. Barry Sadler's No. 1 smash, "Ballad of the Green Beret." or the movie adaptation of Gen. George S. Patton's "Speech to the Third Army." As "Greyhawk" writes at the Mudville Gazette, "This is Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy it. Celebrate it - the people who died to give you that right would appreciate it. But they didn't die peaceably in their beds, these dogs who fell protecting sheep from wolves."
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