From David W. Blight, in a NYT op-ed piece, “Forgetting Why We Remember” (5/30/11), a remarkable piece on the history of Memorial Day and Decoration Day: At the end of the Civil War, Americans faced a formidable challenge: how to memorialize 625,000 dead soldiers, Northern and Southern. As Walt Whitman mused, it was “the dead, … Continue reading Obsolete syntax