Thursday, May 21st, 2015 09:54:15

The Cost of a Free Republic

It’s Memorial Day week. You can tell as you flip through the local paper; Memorial Day notices appear as sales headlines and attention grabbers. “Memorial Day Sale” and “Pre-Memorial Day Sale.” Pretty soon, we’ll see post-Memorial Day sale advertisements.

Sales and barbecue are the two things that many people think about when Memorial Day is mentioned. What else? Well, for many Americans, it’s the weekend that the pool opens and summer begins.