[image: image.png] the Memorial Day show (May26) for Memorial Day we go back into the archive and grab Lori Wallach, director of Rethink Trade the break finds a commentary by Robert Arnold On Memorial Day it begins this way: In the middle of a dust storm on the road to Nasiriyah, a convoy stalled for thirty-seven minutes. That was long enough. Sergeant Miguel Reyes had just turned twenty-two. He was the kind of soldier the old-timers said you’d follow into hell with a can of gasoline … calm under pressure, funny as hell, and good to the bone. He carried a pocket-sized copy of Leaves of Grass in his breastplate, right next to a photograph of his sister and a Saint Christopher medallion. When the IED exploded, it tore through the lead Humvee like paper. The fireball turned night into noon for one blistering second. Reyes didn’t scream. He pushed his gunner out first. Then the medic. Then he tried to climb out last He didn’t make it. His body was found slumped over the radio, hand still clutching the receiver, calling in coordinates for air support that wouldn’t come until morning. The only thing unburnt on him was that medallion … and the photograph. And that’s Memorial Day. That’s the ghost that taps us on the shoulder while we barbecue. That’s the name we say before the anthem. That’s the folded flag pressed into a mother’s chest by a boy in white gloves who is shaking so hard it looks like the flag might fall. Memorial Day is not just about flags waving in the wind or Lee Greenwood choruses at baseball stadiums. It is about silence. Deafening silence. It’s about the spaces left empty — the boots by the door that will never be laced again, the phone that will never ring, the arms that will never again wrap around a loved…. THE TRADE POLICY WE HAVE THE TRADE POLICY WE NEED Given the chaotic Trade War being driven by Trump and his tariffs we spend the hour with Lori Wallach. bio: Lori Wallach is the director of the Rethink Trade program at American Economic Liberties Project. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Memorial Day, Lori Wallach, Trade Policy, Rethink Trade, Robert Arnold, Defiance 13
