On Memorial Day, we honor those who sacrificed their lives in America’s wars. This year, though, I’ll also be thinking of Greg and all those like him, keeping unwilling company with demons of sorrow and despair.

Legislation passed by the House would establish a 10-member commission appointed equally by Democrats and Republicans. Without Republican input, the official story of Jan. 6 will be told by historians, journalists and the courts.

How do we know who is vaccinated and who isn’t? Who will enforce mask mandates for the unvaccinated? What happened to the earlier guidance that vaccinated people keep wearing masks so they don’t become carriers of the disease — that is, the Typhoid Marys of 2021? No one from CDC answered any of these questions. Or dozens of others.

The rigid conventional wisdom around the question of the origins of the virus has broken up, and evidence pointing to a lab leak is finally getting the serious consideration it deserves.

We are a nation that managed to politicize medicine, that made science a liberal conspiracy. We are people who literally couldn’t come together to save their own lives.

A ceasefire is worse than a truce, and even a truce is no substitute for victory.