Memorial Day
Feeling very valued today. People want me.
I’ve been kind of quiet about the new gig, but basically I’m a field adjuster for a large claims management company. In my job at least, we investigate and evaluate claims and potential claims. On that line, I’ve been paged to work twice so far this weekend – I guess one of the things that goes with being the new guy is the joy of carrying the pager on incredibly beautiful days that just happen to fall on long weekends. Yesterday one member of a foursome sliced or hooked or something off the seventh tee into another member of his foursome. Today someone fell asleep at the wheel of his car and rolled it 100 feet down an embankment. Joyous conversations about injured body parts, the frustration of getting lost on an unfamiliar golf course while trying to take pictures and the annoyance of hearing the pager detonate in the locker room of my gym are the memories I’ll take from this Memorial Day weekend.
More importantly though, it is good to remember all those Americans over the last 200+ years who gave their lives defending this country, in good wars and bad, in winning efforts and miserable failures, in noble causes and arrogant posturing, simply because they were asked to. Remember them today, all of them from each and every conflict, simply because it’s the right thing to do. The debates about why they died can resume tomorrow.
