Letter to the editor: I took Mike Parker's advice

I took Mike Parker’s excellent advice and spent Memorial Day exploring the battlefield at Bentonville, marveling at the astonishing stamina and courage of the soldiers on both sides who struggled across that vast space.  It was a particularly good place to observe the 3:00 PM moment of silence, a custom I had not previously heard of.  Of course, I grew up in a household which always referred to and celebrated  the holiday as Decoration Day--regarding the change of name as outrageously new-fangled, perhaps even socialist, and studiously ignoring it.
Thanks, Mike.

Ray Ott
Goldsboro