Comment: For the first time ever, despite my considerable disagreement with past Presidents, I feel like the memory of the brave and valorous  has been sullied by pomp, presence, and what comes off as opportunism of the Commander in Chief.   The "right" thing for the President to have done was to just stay in his room and keep quiet today.  Out of respect.  Because he is so divisive that his presence offends.  Yes he's the President.  Yes the office holder traditionally delivers a Memorial Day address.  But this President, by his very generally noxious presence and suspect motive for just about all he says, really casts a shadow over the purpose of this day, and the fond and respectful memories it is intended to invoke.  Never ever imagined I would see a day when a US President's Memorial Day message actually diminishes those memories. Sad.  This is what it has come to.