What to Remember on Memorial Day  By Harry Shearer  First, like
Dick Cheney, I had other priorities during the Vietnam War.  So,
when Memorial Day rolls around, I'm extra careful  to remember
certain facts about those in our military service.  Like our
government's eagerness to send them into the Iraq War without
the armor, on their vehicles and their bodies, to protect them.
 Or like the ability of their command structure to ignore the
eerie similarity in their "individual abuses" at Abu Ghraib to
the legally sanctioned behavior by interrogators at Guantanamo,
and to punish only those at or below the rank of sergeant for
those activities.   Major General Jeffrey Miller, who was sent
from Cuba to Iraq to "Gitmoize" Abu Ghraib, is doing just fine
now.  When I was a kid, RJR Tobacco used to brag about sending
free cartons of Camels to our troops overseas.  Support takes
many forms.   If our troops ever figure out just what these
kinds of support really mean, anybody without a basement better
tie a yellow ribbon