Morning Briefings

After years of facing all sorts of financial pressures they never expected, from adult kids moving back home to their own parents needing help to retire, empty nest parents are struggling with a new headache. Thinking it was only natural to want to help children and grandchildren, many co-signed student loans. Now, they’re becoming the latest victims of the nation’s mounting problem with student-loan debt, which surpassed the $1 trillion mark last year.

– Kelly Greene, The Wall Street Journal
New Peril for Older Parents: Student Loans They Co-Signed

The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.

– Harry Truman from
Flags of our Fathers

Back on Top: Freedom Tower Rises to Become New York’s Tallest.

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The Wall Street Journal

When my time comes, forget the wrong that I’ve done. Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed. Don’t resent me, and when you’re feeling empty, keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest. Leave out all the rest.

– Linkin Park
Leave Out All the Rest

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

– John 15:13

Memorial Day is much more than a three-day weekend that marks the beginning of summer. To many people, especially the nation’s thousands of combat veterans, this day, which has a history stretching back all the way to the Civil War, is an important reminder of those who died in the service of their country.

– History.com

We’ve always needed God, from the very beginning of this nation.

– A Call to Prayer
9/11 tribute

Jesus knew what he was doing when He said, Do this in memory of me, because He knew the disciples would, even if their future faith were suffering: they’d eat again, they’d at least do that, they’d share a meal again, and when they did, they’d think of Him.

– Liam Callanan
All Saints