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Memorial Day: Remembering and Honoring American Military Personnel Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice

Memorial Day: Remembering and Honoring American Military Personnel Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
Louise Lombardi of Baldwin, N.Y., visits the gravesite of her father, Joseph Lombardi, who was a World War II veteran, at Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale, N.Y., on May 24, 2020. Al Bello/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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If there ever was a day in the American calendar that invites reflection, it’s Memorial Day. Over the course of our country’s history, hundreds of thousands of Americans—most of them young and with decades of life still ahead of them—made the ultimate sacrifice.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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