It’s Memorial Day here in the US. Anyone know what that really means? Other than bbq? I don’t. As a kid, one of the things we did to “celebrate” this day was to go visit my mom’s grave. I think the holiday has a deeper meaning and I spent some time looking it up.
Enough time to realize I couldn’t do justice to the topic, and have time to bbq at least, so thought I’d just list some of my favourite veteran politicians and candidates instead. My Memorial Day list.
90for90 has a list of veteran politicians and candidates here
One of my all time favourite candidates, Jason Kander, I hope we hear more from him in the future: