“Write something sensible.”

I’m finishing this column on the first anniversary of my mother’s passing, and I can still hear her cajoling me to cater to her down-to-earth tastes.

Her funny bone was unpretentious. She could laugh at pratfalls on “America’s Funniest Home Videos” or a tyke’s witticisms on “Kids Say the Darnedest Things”; but she seldom “got” my sense of humor, unless I was recounting a family anecdote.

No satire. No literary allusions. No puns. No song parodies.

Just “sensible.”

Just “something a human could understand.”

So, in honor of my mother, I’ll set snark and stream-of-consciousness aside and attempt to share something sensible about Veterans Day.

Surely Mom would have approved of the topic, since she had been the wife of a veteran, the sister of veterans and the

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