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As we honor (and not celebrate) another Memorial Day, my heart is heavy. Memorial Day, originally Decoration Day, was begun to honor Union soldiers who perished in the Civil War.

But for three years now, and forevermore for my family, Memorial Day will represent the weekend my younger brother, Cliff, died in a horrible hiking accident near Lake Tahoe.

Please take a moment with me to honor not only our gallant soldiers who have died in the service of our country, but also my little brother who was truly a wonderful person, and anyone you may have lost in your life who was taken from us sooner than he or she should have been.

My family continues to try to do the work that Cliff would do if he were still here through the Cliff Kaminsky Memorial Foundation which we started in his honor.