Happy Memorial Day from The A.V. Club

As you may have deduced from the headline, today is Memorial Day here in the United States. It’s a day distinguishable from all other days in that we eat and drink in honor of service men and women who died in the line of duty, not because we’re bummed out after one of our bi-weekly realizations that, “oh shit, this is all really happening. Like, for real.” Yes, patriotic celebrations have a different resonance this year, if not the all-American pastimes of binge eating and buying stuff on sale.