Most of today was spent lounging around my parents’ house with my siblings and two cousins who came down from Oregon for my sister’s high school graduation next month.

I suppose I could crank out something eloquent and long because today is Memorial Day, but I’ll just say this:

For most of today I spent time with my family, exercising many of the freedoms that others have died for so that I might still have these same freedoms. Maybe that sounds a little too simple, but that’s how I remember the sacrifices made on the behalf of one American citizen out of millions more.

To the men and women who made those sacrifices: thank you.