There's No Wrong Way to Celebrate Memorial Day
Conversations at my family’s annual Memorial Day barbeques growing up were mostly about baseball and grilling techniques, but sometimes my Pop Pop would bring up “the War.” He rarely talked about it, but once in a while – usually after a few beers – he would let us hold his medals. He liked to scandalize my grandmother by unbuttoning his top shirt button and showing the grandkids the pocks and rivets marring his tanned shoulders. “Shrapnel,” he said, tracing the scars with h