This is how you commemorate Memorial Day.
(Looks like he didn’t provide a permlink so this likely won’t work after today.) Quoth he:
Men like my father wouldn’t be comfortable with a daily parade of thanks, anyway; like many heroes, he didn’t take every opportunity to remind us what he’d done, nor did he want to be viewed exclusively through that prism. He would shake off the word “hero,” in fact. He would prefer “sailor.” To a certain man of a certain age, that said it all. I was a sailor. And it still says it all. If you’re listening.
I knew a guy like that. Bronze Star and all. “What did you do in the war, Dad?” “Oh, nothing much.”
Miss you, Dad. And Uncle Bud and Uncle Jack. And all your buddies I never got to meet.