Memorial Day can be a complicated day. On one hand, it’s our responsibility as citizens to pay our respects to all the brave souls who gave their lives to the ideal of freedom. On the other, our country has engaged in much needless warfare, in which those soldiers needn’t have died. Our progress working through this conundrum represents one facet of the necessary reckoning we must have as a society. How shall we proceed? Perhaps we can honor this day and move forward with respect.