I Was Actually Thinking About A Memorial Day Post Of Some Kind ...

... but one of those anonymous trolls kind of put me off the idea with a "you're a terrible person for not commemorating OUR BOYS!" comment (deleted as soon as I saw it because I've stopped tolerating that shit).

So, instead, two things:

• A 2016 Garrison Center column explaining why I don't think of "OUR BOYS" as the relevant topics of the observance; and
• A speech by Oliver Wendell Holmes that I had never read in its entirety, but noticed in The Bulwark today and remembered one phrase from -- "in our youth our hearts were touched with fire" -- because of Ken Burns's documentary on the Civil War.

Enjoy. Or not.