Opinion: San Diegans have long marked Memorial Day with the reverence and gratitude it deserves [Opinion]
Memorial Day, in which Americans honor all those who died while serving in the U.S. military, has been marked since long before 1971, when the last Monday in May became an official federal holiday. Alas, many see it only as the unofficial start of summer.
In 1983, with the fallout from Vietnam still very much on the community’s mind, the Tribune saw reason to hope the popularity of the newly unveiled Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., reflected a change in how those veterans were perceived.
In 1991, less than three months after the U.S. military quickly ousted Iraqis occupying Kuwait, the Tribune celebrated the patriots who built a nation capable of surviving the 1861-1865 Civil War, thanks to the values they enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These “common bonds became indissoluble only when steeped in the blood of the blue and gray,” a reference to the uniforms worn by the Union Army.
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