Memorial Day 2050: How Will Future Americans Look Back On This Moment?

Memorial Day 2024... honoring the men and women who bravely fought and died while serving in the US military. Across the country, many Americans will visit cemeteries and hold memorials for the fallen, and participate in patriotic parades. 

Years down the road, or even by the middle of this century, will future historians and populations look back on this moment with a sense of regret, loathing, and disgust? 

Will future generations of Americans one day be honoring the fallen of a World War 3 nuclear-armed confrontation with Russia? At this moment, Washington planners keep marching the nation (and the world) toward the abyss, seen in public messaging like the following...

When we hold the @NATO Washington Summit in July, we’ll take tangible steps to increase NATO’s role in building a capable Ukrainian force, supporting its ongoing reforms, better integrating Ukraine into the Alliance. pic.twitter.com/dxYxnAbWlP

— Department of State (@StateDept) May 19, 2024

What will the children and grandchildren of this current generation say when they look back and reflect on this moment?

Will there be tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands more fallen to memorialize on Memorial Day 2050?

Let us hope and pray this is not the case.