declare are directly in peril on this memorial day weekend 2021? >> i think what we've learned in recent times is that the democracy we all thought was pretty well cemented is in fact fragile. it's institutions, norms, standards, traditions that we believed were rock-solid in the united states had their vulnerabilities and countries around the world. i spent only four years living in correspondent for the washington post. i traveled from countries all around the world and in recent times i only imagine that we would've covered as foreign correspondents and i think that's why you're right. that today the people who thought died to protect this country whose memories we honor today did so with the idea that they weren't defending a robust unhealthy democratic system.