Memorial Day: For Vets, Too Many Delays and Not Enough Parades

Michael Winship @ Common Dreams - I love a parade. And in the small upstate New York town in the Finger Lakes where I grew up there were not enough of them as far as I was concerned.

There was the occasional special event: a parade to honor the Scottish racer Malcolm Campbell the summer he spent roaring up and down our lake unsuccessfully trying to break the world water speed record.  Read more.