Happy Memorial Day!

memorial day

"It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country, in defense of us, in wars afar away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired. But most of them were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives, the one they were living and the one they would ...

misparsings

For a confusing second I had parsed the headline Wiccan pentacle approved by VA as Wiccan tentacle approved by VA . It didn't help that I read VA as "Virginia".