American
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
A soldier whose name was lost, buried where no one could ever forget him — and guarded around the clock, in every kind of weather, by soldiers who never met him and never stop.
This Week · Remembrance · Memorial Day
Remembrance: how can remembering be a way of caring?
For littler ones: When someone isn't here anymore, how does remembering them help?
This week we're wondering about remembrance — about holding onto people, even ones we never got to meet. How can remembering be a way of caring? It's a question to carry around this Memorial Day week — in the car, at the table, wherever — when the country sets aside a day to remember people who didn't come home.
This week's stories
American
The Eleventh Hour
The morning a long war ended — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month — and how, ever after, whole countries fall quiet for a minute to remember it.
Talk about it
- When we say someone's name out loud, or stand quiet for a moment — what do you think that does, and who is it for?
- Is it possible to care about someone you never met? What would that even feel like?
- Is there someone in your family, or from long ago, you'd want to be remembered — and what would you want people to remember?
A new question every week.
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