Loretta A Response for Your Consideration

There is nothing wrong at all with what you said.

I think almost all Americans feel like you do on Memorial day. I grew up in a time where flags proudly flew on Memorial Day and we celebrated our war heros not our hot dogs and hamburgers.

But at this time, we need to remember that some of us served in other ways.

For example, my cousin, Andrew Goodman, was murdered in Mississippi in 1964 together with James Chaney and Micheal Schewner in the back woods of Philadephia, Mississippi.

17 members of the Klan took part in those murders. They murdered these young men were for trying to help registered African Americans to vote.

Some of you may remember their story in the movie Missippi Burning. Their deaths brought about the passage of the voting rights bill of 1965: a right which is currently being challenged in many states around the nation.

The president addressed this yesterday while laying a wreath at Arlington Cemetary in a strong speach about Freedom and Democracy.

Biden warned that democracy was "in peril" in the United States and around the world in the face of autocratic forces.

Freedom and Democracy depends on our willingness to defend those ideas and make sure that those who died in our wars, both here and abroad to defend democracy, and ( the rights of all Americans to participate in it) are not betrayed.

It remains to be seen if we are up to the task.