Memorial Day - ‘We need to stop and honor our fallen comrades'

DeKALB - For many, Memorial Day means a day off work, the official start to summer and maybe even the chance to take advantage of a big holiday sale to buy a new mattress, Mike Breyne, a district commander with the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said Monday. But for Breyne, the keynote speaker at DeKalb's Memorial Day program, the holiday's original meaning holds sway. &#8220For me, Memorial Day means we need to stop and honor our fallen comrades,” he told the several hundred people assembled at Elwood House. Breyne wasn't alone. &#8220It's our chance to remember what they did. And it's not just the soldiers in Iraq ... but Vietnam, World War I and II, even the Civil War and all of that,” said Linda Parker of DeKalb. She took two of her grandch