[Baldbaron]

Am I the only Villager to find today's WVLG theme of "Rockin' Memorial Day" inappropriate?
I'm all for days off, cookouts and fun activities, but I'm even more in favor of showing proper respect for the memories and families of those Americans who lost their lives fighting to preserve our basic freedoms.

Have you stood on the grass at any of the numerous beautifully kept American cemeteries in America and abroad and felt humble to be in the presence of the spirits represented by the thousands of silent grave markers? Have you read the names on the bricks in the memorial here in The Villages and wondered what they were like as individuals and what kind of patriotic and productive descendants were not born because of their sacrifice?

WVLG, you need not play dirges or avoid mention of the real meaning of Memorial Day, but you DO need to help us all, old and young, remember those brave men and women who died making sure that the ideas of freedom and free speech, however battered and tested, will live on in the greatest country that ever existed.