Memorial Day, what does it mean? As your long weekend unfolds look around. Take in your world and listen.

What do you see? What do you hear? What do you feel?

Will you hear this long weekend referred to as “the unofficial start of summer?”  Will you hear people talk about parties, barbecues, trips to the lake and the beach, probably.

As you feel the warm rays of the sun, smell the inviting flavors of fresh food sizzling on the grill and watch your children run around the yard or splash in the surf there is something you should remember.

It is another beach, from a time long since past. You can see that beach in the photo accompanying this article. It is the beach at Buna, Papua New Guinea, and it depicts just three of the young lives this weekend memorializes.

The photo is of three dead American GIs.  They lie half buried in the sand of an island far from their homes, far from their loved ones. They died so you could be here..free..

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/27/memorial-day-as-summer-begins-remember-this-beach/#ixzz1w7fuFdYs