We had a great holiday except for the few days I was sick as a dog with kidney stones. I don't even wish those on my worst enemy. I resisted my usual ER trip for leftover pain meds and sleeping the stones off - 12 hours later, I was fine but we'd already had to reschedule friends coming over.

When I was resting at one point, I thought about how we should have done more to go over Memorial Day with our daughter. We are big history buffs and news junkies, so our daughter has a context of what sacrifices have been made by military. We've talked about who served in our family and what branch, and about who in our family didn't make it back from war. Watching the nightly news, our child has seen the cost that service has brought many families.

But that isn't the same as doing something to remember them now. And this isn't about support for wars - or a specific war, or violence or whatever you want to insert in the sentence. It is about remembering people who died on duty in the service of the United States military.

Normally we have our flag up but my being ill threw our whole weekend off. We just heard about that 3pm moment of silence, which I would have loved to do.

What do you do with your children to help them honor people who have laid down their lives for our country?