Viewpoint: Memorial Day is not for sale

Scenes of GIs mooning for their girls back home, baseball, hot dogs and Mom’s apple pie were a staple of Hollywood movies about World War II. But those scenes never rang true with any of the WW II combat vets I’ve talked to. What they recall obsessing over was the misery around them: the weather, the hunger and the constant fear of maiming or death. War isn’t pretty. It’s nothing to wax …