Memorial Day Reads

"The war in Iraq is in its seventh year[; t]he war in Afghanistan, in its ninth year, is the longest war in our history, [with] the latest installment of 30,000 new troops is readying for new battles with Taliban fighters in Kandahar," reminds Nora Eisenberg — 10 Things We Must Remember on Memorial Day.

"While hiding the death and destruction and certainly blotting out any graphic images of it, our poor excuse for journalism is awash with feel-good stories about the wars," notes John V. Walsh — The Prettification of War.

Linda Schrock Taylor on "the oversold, eternal, ineffaceable, World War II" and how "much of [her] entire life has been defined, dictated – and distressed – by the War that served as a finishing school, as well as a continuing way of life, for [her] father's generation" — My War Memorials.