From a friend's Facebook:
Monday will be the most expensive holiday on the calendar. Every hot dog, every burger, every spin around the lake, or drink with friends and family...is a debt...purchased by others.
This is not about all who've served...that day comes in the fall. This one is to honor of those who paid in life and blood; whose moms never saw them again, whose dads wept in private, whose wives raised kids alone, and whose kids only remembered them from pictures.
This isn't simply a day off. This is a day to remember - that others paid for every free breath you will ever get to take.
Freedom!