Memory is a tricky thing. Particularly as we get older. You may know the story about three women who were talking.

The first said, "Sometimes I go to the refrigerator and forget what I need by the time I get there."

The second woman said, "When I go upstairs, I can't remember whether I'm going up for something or I'm on my way back down."

The third woman said, "I'm lucky, I guess (knocking on wood), I don't have that problem. Oh, there's someone at the door."

One of our older comedians says he can always find his car in a parking lot ” it's the one with the lights on.

Memory is a tricky thing. There are some things, however, that we should never forget. One of these is the sacrifices that others have made in our behalf.

It was a spring morning in 1866, just after the Civil War that h…