While you're enjoying your fabulous hamdogs this weekend...
don't forget the Memorial reason for the extra day in the Weekend (in the U.S.). Where I live the local scouts put together over 15,000 luminaria at one of the local national cemeteries to help the public remember it's not about cheap furniture and car sales...
THE MUFFLED drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on Life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.
---Theodore O'Hara