ISLAND IMPRESSIONS BY TOM PURDY
HONORING THE HOLIDAY
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hen I was a kid I didn’t fully appreciate Memorial Day. I liked having a long weekend, but I didn’t think about the holiday with any great depth. I don’t remember what got my attention, but one year it clicked, and I realized that this day off of school and the reason 72
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for so many extra sales fliers in the newspaper was because we were honoring and remembering those who have, “laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom,” as Abraham Lincoln once wrote. Perhaps it was my own brother’s service in the Army upon graduation from high school, or when I began to consider
