What's With Memorial Day?

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From Beyond Intractability

Our friends Guy and Heidi Burgess, whom we interviewed in a two-part podcast in 2025, offered a wonderful reflection on Memorial Day that resonated with us in their Beyond Intractability Substack newsletter. It is brief article and well worth the few minutes to read it. It is titled, Memorial Day: More than a Party.

From The Wounded Warrior Project

From History Facts

• Memorial Day was Originally Called “Decoration Day”

• Did you know it is Legally Required to observe a National Moment of Remembrance on Memorial Day?”

Really, Thanksgiving is coming…sooner than we realize. We’ll be revisiting the Acts of Kindness our guests have shared throughout Season 4 in our Thanksgiving podcast but do you have an act of kindness that you’d be willing to share, too? If so, click on this link you can participate through this Google Forms Survey at this link or by clicking on the button below.

“What do we do with the acts we learn about in this survey?,” you ask. We save them and feature them in our Thanksgiving show each year…anonymously…unless you prefer we use your name.

There you will find two kindness questions we’d like you to consider and then respond to:

• What is an act of kindness you’ve received that made a difference to you?

• What is an act of kindness you have done which you hope changed another person’s life?

Finally, please share this survey because an act of kindness shared begets others.

Acts of Kindness Survey

Fact Checking: Because there are a lot of things happening…some true, some false, some unbelievable…we use the following fact checking sites. Take a look for yourself:

• Snopes

• FactCheck.org

• Politifact

• RealClearPolitics

• Reuters FactCheck

Because media can have its own biases, we also rely upon these sites to help us get balanced coverage:

• Media Bias/Fact Check

• All Sides

• Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart

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Lamar Roth and Tom Klaus are lifelong friends exploring how to get to a 3rd Space - a space where two or more people with opposing viewpoints, ideologies, and worldviews can come together to hear, listen, share, and connect with one another. Together Lamar and Tom hope to carve out a 3rd Space where everything can be on the table for open, straightforward, honest, and, yet kind and respectful inquiry.

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Getting to 3rd Space with Lamar and Tom is produced and sponsored by Klaus Haus Productions LLC and Acorn Consulting, LLC. © 2026. All Rights Reserved. Permissions: hello@klaushausllc.com.

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Recorded using Riverside.fm - http://riverside.fm/ - from “home studio” locations in Maryland and Kansas, USA; Original Publishing Date, May 26, 2026.