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Regional weekend in baseball, and state tournament in softball highlight the sports week...and the school year draws to a close with time for reflection on what we've seen, heard, and what we might yet see over the next ten days.  The last, and best, of the OHSAA state tournaments is at the doorstep.

It’s a well-recognized tune, one of the most famous in America, but for the sake of fact…some words about a “national” tune not written by John Phillip Sousa, but one he admitted that he liked as much as his own. A holiday tribute in today's Press Pros.

To fully understand the significance, and the lives honored on Memorial Day, you really need to leave home for a site of ultimate sacrifice at least once in your life.  In my case…I make it a yearly pilgrimage. It’s another Memorial Day weekend, and again, for what seems like the 20th year in a row