Happy Memorial Day

I hope everybody's having a great holiday weekend. I had limited battery life while camping at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but I'm back inside a real building now and am putting some posts together (Hot Links will be postponed until Tuesday).

Remember that noon (Pacific; 3 p.m. Eastern) is the official national moment of remembrance. It's a great time to kick off the summer, but sometimes it feels like we might forget why this is "a day off."

I got to spend the weekend with a close friend who is serving in the Navy, and he said one of the best things you can do to support our troops is to give blood. Bases frequently hold blood drives and the Air Force has a base near LAX (UCLA also has a great donation program). That will help ensure that more of our young men and women get to be honored on Veterans Day instead of Memorial Day.

Thanks, peace and respect to those we have lost at war and to those who continue to serve (including UCLA ROTC programs).

Photo (via Flickr) by Jim Hinnant, 401st Army Field Support Brigade Public Affairs, taken this morning in Kuwait.

Comments

[MaltBaa]

Looks like your step behind everyone else on the Brehaut commitment. Good Job!!

[Adam Rose]

Eric Sondheimer had it covered in our high school blog this morning. I waited to post until I could link to his long-form story. If you want to keep up with high school sports news, click "Varsity Times Insider" on the right hand column of this page.

I'm sure a couple hours delay on this blog -- on a national holiday -- didn't hurt anybody. Keep it real.

Hope everybody had a great Memorial Day.

[Taylor]

Yea - let's give Adam a break here. Can we please stop nitpicking over small stuff? Who cares about a delay of couple of hours? And while we're at it, let's quit whining over small misspellings and such. I'm sick of reading comments on this blog and having it seem like people have nothing better to do than slam Adam and everything he writes on here just because he's a Trojan. Yes, there's a rivalry between our schools. That doesn't mean there can't be mutual respect. It's clear from this blog that Adam respects UCLA. Let's return the favor and give him the respect he deserves.