Frosted Flakes: Memorial Day, Baseball Selection Show and Alien Autopsies

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty ImagesI hope you are enjoying your Memorial Day weekend.

We got to enjoy some family time and today will bring some overdue projects around the ranch.

I have several veterans in my ancestory, although most of my family has been farmers as far back as I can trace. Farmers were often exempted from military service (drafts) because their work was essential during war, but I do have quite a few relatives who served anyway. Most recently, my father was a maintenance officer in the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

None of my relatives, as far as I know, was killed during their service. My father tells me of people he knew, including his first college roommate, who…