It is a strange time we find ourselves in this year.

The whole concept of Memorial Day seems to have joined the strangeness when Boy Scouts, The American Legion and The Veterans of Foreign Wars and other organizations are not being allowed to place flags on Veterans' graves this year.

But - even though those flags are not being placed - remember that Memorial Day is a day when we take time to remember the many thousands of American Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen who put their duty to their country first and in that doing that duty gave their lives to protect what we have now.

It is these men and women who gave that last full measure of themselves that we remember this weekend.

May we never forget them and what they gave for us.