Memorial Day

I won't even try to be eloquent here...I'll just provide some links that have genuinely moved me this Memorial Day Weekend.

• An audio slideshow from CNN.com; sounds and images from Arlington Cemetery.
• A piece from yesterday's Sunday Morning on CBS, also about Arlington.
• Another slideshow from CNN.com, this one an iReport in which ordinary people send in images and stories about the soldiers in their families who lost their lives.
• A story about Merlin German, the "Miracle Marine," who died a few weeks ago.
• And finally, links to a couple of poems that have been on my mind as well: Whitman's "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." I know the second is more about Lincoln than soldiers in general, but it is a beautiful poem about America, life, death, mourning, renewal and hope.