A record 45 million Americans are expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend, the highest volume in the holiday’s recorded history. On Monday at 3 p.m. local time, many of those travelers will stop wherever they are for the National Moment of Remembrance. For most Americans, the two things are not in conflict.
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