For years, one of the highlights of the televised Memorial Day concert in Washington, D.C., was seeing and hearing actor Charles Durning spare no emotion as he talked about World War II, the conflict he valiantly fought in, and was wounded in, and was honored for. Then last year he was introduced but looked old and ill and only waved to the crowd. This year, although a brief clip of one of Durning's past speeches was played, the 86-year-old was not even present. Time marches on and the Greatest Generation rapidly fades from our sight.
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Answer to Sunday's bizarre puzzlement: H. Ross Perot was the 1992 presidential candidate with the biggest ears.
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A Memorial Day meal with my wife and kids consisting of steamed clams, lobster and a bottle of Amstel Light -- it doesn't get a whole lot better than that.
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