Between the BBQ cookouts and discount shopping, cornbread and coupon codes, it’s good to take a moment to remember why we have Memorial Day. Every year on this day, I remember my friend Mark Daily, who died eight years ago while serving in Iraq. You can read his story in this moving piece by Christopher Hitchens (Mark enlisted in part because of Hitchens’ writings at the time, which Hitchens found out after Mark’s death). Hitchens can also be heard reading the article in this YouTube video.