Each year, for many years, a group of
veterans and their supporters gathers on Memorial Day in lower
Manhattan and they march for peace. It is not a big group. Most are
older, remembering service in Korea and Viet Nam. Some are the children of men lost in WW II. They carry a flag draped coffin and bagpipers play. And
they walk through Battery Park, past the War Memorials that most New
Yorker's don't even know are there. Tourists heading for the Staten
Island Ferry and the Statue of Liberty take snapshots.
The event ends with a few speeches and
then some stand to remember the names of fallen comrades and
in their names toss a flower into the harbor. A bugler plays taps
and everybody goes home. The press rarely pays any attention to this
event, so politicians don't show up, so this is probably the first
you have heard of it.
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