Making Memorial Day Memorable with Hope
Andy Rooney said something last night on “60 Minutes” that caught my attention.
I’m not one to resonate with Andy’s curmudgeon schtick but last night he uttered something poignant and memorable about the meaning of memorial day to him to not memorialize fallen heroes from conflicts past but to work earnestly and zealously to removing the need for our young men and women to march to war at all.
With one nephew and niece making their way through college in the ROTC program (Erin & Sean McCarey), one young cousin contemplating the armed forces having just completed high school (Brandon Garza), one brother a veteran of Vietnam from 1967 -1969 (John McCarey), and a nation engaged in Iraq long after George W muttered “Mission Accomplished,” I look at Andy’s idealism as a necessary ingredient to move our nation forward beyond our current quagmire replete with color alerts, fear factor campaigning, and questions of an individual’s patriotism rooted in whether he sports a flag pin in his lapel or if his name has too many vowels.
One of the chief questions I would like each candidate and every individual supporting him or her to contemplate and answer is “Where do we go from here?”
If it’s more of the same, I’m not buying it so please don’t try to pawn it off on me, or my family, or my two young sons.
If it is something different, something tinged if not fully colored with reasonable hope, sign me up.
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