re: Memorial Day 2020, what is it really about

You know, not to diminish Memorial Day or the sacrifices of those who died for this country in any way, but I can’t help but find it really distasteful to make a public showing of people’s very real and personal grief so that I and everyone else can have our heart strings tugged at. It seems just a bit selfish and invasive to immerse myself in pictures of people grieving, not really for an American hero, but a very important loved one in their life who’s been taken from them. It just seems like really private moments that I am intruding upon. Again, this is not to not appreciate their sacrifices in the least, but rather I can’t help but think we shouldn’t make a spectacle of these moments. They’re really personal and private moments, not public.