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It’s 7 a.m., 52°, and we’re headed for 58°. I had hoped to have good news for you on the weather front, but I just looked at the 10-day forecast and it’s really pretty miserably under 60 until a week from today, and then we crack 60 but just barely. Details are here.

The Los Angeles Times reminds us what Memorial Day is about and pays tribute to the more than 6,000 men and women who have lost their lives in our current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 600 were from California.

From San Francisco, they include David Guttierrez, Keith Moore and Christopher Rose. May they rest in peace.

Let us know if you have family still fighting there.

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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

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  1. What about the civilians killed or maimed in battle? What day to we remember them. Or would we rather forget that far more civilian non-combatants die in today’s wars than soldiers (and mercenaries – excuse me, contractors)?

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