Monday, May 27, 2024 unofficially heralds the summer season of the year as Memorial Day 2024 — even though summer does not officially begin for another month — and having a weekend of three days prompts people to either travel or enjoy cooking out delicious food on the backyard grill at home with loved ones while relaxing…
Memorial Day 2024: Suggested Reading
…but Memorial Day 2024 is also a somber day to remember those who have lost their lives while fighting for the United States — and it is a day to remember them and the service which they provided to protect the United States from its enemies and adversaries.
Links to past articles which have been posted to The Gate With Brian Cohen which pertain to Memorial Day include:
- Changing of the Guard at Arlington National Cemetery — In honor of Memorial Day 2024 and those brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives for the people of the United States, here is some raw unedited video of the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery which I shot back on Friday, April 15, 2016 — and I will let that moving video do all of the talking. This article contains some photographs which I took from that day.
- Marietta National Cemetery — Just east of the center of downtown of the city of Marietta in the state of Georgia is a national cemetery which contains the remains of 10,132 officers and soldiers — and arguably, no day is better to commemorate their service that Memorial Day to acknowledge them. This article contains photographs and historical information about the cemetery.
- The September 11 Memorial in New York: A Photographic Essay — As I was born and raised in New York, I stopped by the September 11 Memorial in lower Manhattan back in 2015 to visit and reflect upon one of the most horrendous days in the history of the United States.
- Seven Tips on How to Avoid Road Rage This Memorial Day Weekend — Approximately 38.4 million Americans will travel this coming Memorial Day weekend in 2024, which could be the highest travel volume on record for the holiday. If you are going to be a motorist in the United States during Memorial Day, you can better avoid potentially dangerous interactions with aggressive drivers in a phenomenon which is known as road rage by following the seven tips in this article.
- How Do You Deal With Inexperienced Travelers? Happy Memorial Day — The fact that many people are off from work and children are out of school for a significant amount of time — some for the summer — fuels the desire to travel. Airports become crowded, flights become full, roads become clogged with traffic, and hotel properties become sold out; and those who are inexperienced with travel are taking to the airways — possibly with you. Call it an honest lack of experience or call it ignorance — but to some FlyerTalk members, traveling with people who are inexperienced with travel in general and apparently do not know their boundaries can exacerbate the stress already inherent with travel. Please click on this link to continue reading this article from 2013.
- Listen to Radio Decades Ago From New York — Music, News, Commercials, and More — As a tradition of every Memorial Day weekend for years, a dentist named Alan Sniffen brings back Musicradio WABC 77 for all to enjoy and remember through Rewound Radio, which is his streaming broadcast station that plays music from the years 1960 through 1982 — 24 hours per day, seven days per week. That tradition continues this coming weekend. If you are fortunate, you will also hear commercials from that era of airlines, lodging companies, and rental car companies. This article contains more information about this tradition.
- Luggage Memorial Day Sale 2024 — You could save money from no fewer than 14 different companies which manufacture and sell all types of luggage.
- Christmas? Memorial Day? It Does Not Matter. It is Simply a Day Off. — Should the names of all holidays be removed from the school calendar by members of a board of education of a local school district and simply replace them as “Days Off”? This idea was proposed back in 2021…
Final Boarding Call
Thank you for reading The Gate With Brian Cohen — and I hope that your Memorial Day weekend will be as meaningful as possible to you…
…and may those brave people who fought for our country and lost their lives in the process rest in peace.
Photograph ©2016 by Brian Cohen.
