"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke

The kids will eat burgers and hot dogs. The adults will have steaks and salad. Ice cream will be our dessert, and strawberries, blueberries, and vanilla yogurt will make a celebratory appearance as a side dish. Seems a little funny that we remember the fallen by eating outside, throwing Frisbees, and drinking lemonade in the shade.

Yet this is one way we Americans have come to honor our heroes.

What began as Decoration Day after the Civil War in 1866, has evolved into a National holiday, celebrated across this great land of ours with picnics and barbeques. It all started with activist concern: Henry Welles, a resident of Waterloo, New York, felt that the soldiers who had died in the Civil War should be remembered and honored. His fellow citizens agreed, and everyone banded together and paid their respects by placing crosses and floral bouquets on each patriot