Today is Memorial Day here in the United States.  Lots of people have thanked me for my prior service today, and it’s much appreciated.  But today isn’t my day.

Today is the day we remember those of us who didn’t come home.  The sons and daughters, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters who cashed the check that they sign the day they take the oath of enlistment, good for anything in their life, including the giving of that life.

There are ceremonies going on across the nation and overseas today to honor these dead.  In years past I’ve quoted poetry or Shakespeare, but today I want to highlight a memorial that isn’t spoken of much.

At Fort Meade in Maryland, there is a memorial to those members of the signals intelligence community who have died on duty.  The work of these young men and women was classified at the time…