Pause to honor the fallen

Monday is Memorial Day.

Many of you won't see this until returning home from the beach, or perhaps after hitting big sales marketed around the occasion. Some might even use this paper to help start the family barbecue. After all, that's what we do on Memorial Day weekend.

But for thousands of families, Monday is yet another day to remember the ones who once occupied a seat at the dinner table, played ball with the kids and provided a steady rudder for the family - until they died in war.

Monday is about all of us remembering them, too.

In Crofton, Amy Stoddard and her three children remember every day. So...