On Memorial Day, once a year, we pledge ourselves to remember the hundreds of thousands of victims of American foreign policy. But Americans are not much interested in history. We prefer to forget both the victims and the perpetrators. So, on Memorial Day, Americans generally ignore our war dead and wait to hear news reports about our Indianapolis 500 dead. We forget about memorials, just as on July 4, we pay little attention to the Declaration of Independence; on Thanksgiving Day, we ignore the Pilgrims; on Labor Day, we don’t go to work; on Easter Sunday, we search for Easter … Continue reading Holidays Are Evil