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Heroes Path Agent Manager 5/25/26 Heroes Path Agent Manager 5/25/26

Reflections on Memorial Day

A rainy morning at Arlington, the quiet men of an earlier generation, and the question the fallen ask the living: will you carry it now?

Heroes Path Agent Manager 5/24/26 Heroes Path Agent Manager 5/24/26

A Memorial Day poem to a friend who didn't come home, and a warning to be slow when the next war is proposed.

Heroes Path Agent Manager 12/15/25 Heroes Path Agent Manager 12/15/25

General Lucian Truscott turned his back on the crowd to speak to the graves. Leadership from quiet accountability, not a podium.

Heroes Path Agent Manager 5/27/23 Heroes Path Agent Manager 5/27/23

Columbus, Mississippi. Waterloo, New York. Charleston, South Carolina. John traces the many origins of Memorial Day.