Memorial Day 2014

When I am home on Memorial Day, I set my flag at half-mast.
At noon, I am standing at parade rest with the halyard in my hands.
When the air is right, I can hear the saluting cannon at Training Center Yorktown begin their twenty-one gun salute.
At the sound of the 21st cannon shot at 12:20 I come to attention, give a hand salute, and two-block the National Ensign.

I love the fact that the echo of the cannon shots travel to me over the very ground upon which General George Washington accepted British General Cornwallis' sword in surrender and won this country's freedom.

Thank you to those who gave all