Memorial Day Weekend
It’s the first holiday of the impending summer season. Pools open around Richmond and other locales, many people head for the beach, and backyard chefs fire up the grill. Originally known as Decoration Day, it was first observed a few years after the end of the Civil War. More American lives were lost in that one war than any other conflict involving the United States, and it caused the creation of national cemeteries. Since World War I, all military war dead are honored. In