ERIC OLSEN reports on his all-American memorial day.

Memorial Day weekend was no great shakes at the InstaPundit household, but it was pleasant enough considering everything that happened. My daughter got over her stomach bug, and spent last night at my sister’s. This was supposed to allow my wife and me to have a lovely romantic dinner to celebrate her birthday (last week) but she came down with the stomach bug just in time to put paid to those plans. She recovered enough to meet with some guys today from the production company shooting her documentary, but then it was back to bed for her. I picked up my daughter, took her to the mall for a haircut (very cute), a trip to Build-a-Bear (cute, but a bit expensive — they make the money selling you tiny bits of cloth shaped like bear clothes at exorbitant prices, and it’s carefully calibrated to ensure you spend more than you plan to), and a stop by Godiva Chocolate (I buy her a couple of pieces of that stuff when we go to the mall, with the result that regular cheap-o chocolate tastes like crap to her and goes uneaten). Then home where we finished a book (having completed the Narnia series, we’re back on a second run-through of Harry Potter; just finished the first one). Not a bad day at all, considering.

And any day like that is a good day, considering that there are people out there who’d like to see everyone involved go up in a nuclear fireball. To which I say: screw ’em — and remember the guys who are doing their best to accomplish that very goal.

For a different kind of Memorial Day remembrance, go here.