To diverge for a moment, last night I watched the 60 Minutes’ memorial segments. Ooh, men suffer injustices too!

Anyway, today I honor all the people who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. I include my beloved father who, while in the Army, contracted rheumatic fever that began with a strep throat. Obviously, it affected the connective tissue in his heart as he died from a massive heart attack at a young age.