Happy Memorial Day, all.

My father has been the master of ceremonies for the Ardmore Memorial Day parade and memorial service since sometime in the 1980s (!). It's a great chance to see him in his "choker" dress whites, and it's a charming small town ceremony. Afterward, a bunch of us repair to the ancestral Mulhern home for lunch.

Of course, there's no parade this year. My father and my youngest sister are going to walk down to the cemetary this morning and make sure everything is as it should be. Ivelis and I will walk over this afternoon and make an appropriately distanced visit—I think we'll be on the lawn. It's not the same, but it's something.

AQ2 (AW) Mulhern, USN (Retired)