Memorial Day Matters For many people, Memorial Day is about parades, back yard BBQs, and flying the flag. For seniors, though, it’s much more. Many seniors are veterans. They remember every day, watching their brothers in arms dying on the battlefield next to them — many lost family members and friends. Half a million of the country’s oldest residents served in WWII, and millions more served in Vietnam and Korea. Across those three conflicts, hundreds of thousands lost their…