Editor’s Note: Peter King is off this week, in California for his youngest daughter’s wedding. He’ll return to the column next Monday.
While you prepare/recover from your Memorial Day activities, and before we get into the “serious” business of covering professional football, I wanted to take a couple of minutes to remember why we have this great holiday. I don’t want to beat anybody over the head with it; I just think it’s important.
A little history lesson (I certainly needed a refresher):
• In 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War, Decoration Day was established for the country to decorate the graves of the soldiers who died in war.