There will be a Memorial Day service at Homewood Cemetery, here in Pittsburgh. There is, also a small sevice in my own community. There isn't space anwywhere here for a large gathering. The Borough was built about 100 years ago, to house workers in George Westinghouse's Union Switch and Signal. I think old George didn't want mass meetings in the town square.

I put a flag on my Dad's grave today. He served in WWII. My joke, since he was a civil war buff, is that I am honoring his service at First and Second Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Appomatox. Now and again, someone believes me, and I get some odd looks.