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My Memorial Day
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A young Lance Corporal Strong, May, 1993, surprising my niece at her high school graduation in Nebraska. Just 21 days before this photo was taken, I was on patrol in Mogadishu, Somalia. - photo by Dustin R. Strong
As many do, I take time to look back and take stock on Memorial Day. As a kid, the weekend meant freedom, not in the light of the Constitution or Declaration of Independence, but freedom from the tyranny of school and teachers; freedom from diagraming sentences or finding the hypotenuse of a triangle.