As you read this I am out making photographs at the annual Doylestown Memorial Day Parade. I look forward to it every year and get there early for what I think are the best picture opportunities. As the parade ends I follow the marchers down to the cemetery to take part in the always moving memorial ceremony. Together, these events speak to me about the good things that truly make America great, unlike the falsehoods those currently in power would have us believe.

The memorial ceremony in particular serves as a remembrance for all those that fought and made the ultimate sacrifice to preserve our democracy and the freedoms so many in our country now take for granted, even as a darkness spreads and threatens to destroy all of it.

Don’t take any of what we have for granted! Do so and you may regret it sooner than you think.

Stay well,

Michael