Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU
May 22, 2026 · 33 min · 7 segments
In this Memorial Day episode, Dennis Prager and Marissa Streit discuss sacrifice, patriotism, and America’s role in protecting freedom around the world. Dennis reflects on how Memorial Day should be…
Dennis PragerGuest
Marissa StreitHost
It's a day to have hot dogs, not celebrate the founding of the freest, most prosperous country, spreader of freedom in world history.
You people have to see videos of it if they don't go, uh, obviously on that day to Israel.
Everything comes to a halt, including the busiest highways, freeways, throughways in Israel.
People get out of their car in the middle of the, of the highway and stand there for a minute of silence.
If we don't know what Americans died for, then we don't know what we stand for.
You know, I think about it because I went to Normandy Beach many years ago with my family, and I was blown away.
I-- It shook me up, the number of twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two-year-olds buried there.
They walked onto the beach like the most fortified, uh, uh, a wall in the world.
The, the German wall on, on, on the French, uh, border with, uh, uh, English Channel, and they knew a lot of them are gonna be blown up, killed, maimed, whatever.
I agree that it's a crisis, and y-you mentioned Fourth of July, which many of the viewers know that we have created a ritual for people to remember and celebrate Independence Day.
And, and many people around the country are probably gonna be doing it this year.
We're gonna be, uh, sharing it, time a-at the White House during the 250th celebration.
Do you think we could create a ritual also for Memorial Day? I mean, is there, is there a way where Americans could stand silent for one minute for our great country? Maybe we decide that it's, um, I don't know, eight PM Eastern, everybody just takes one minute to, to think about those who've served our country.
Should we do that? Should we come to a one-minute standstill all over the country on Memorial Day? I would be very interested to see how the vote would go.
It's a day to have hot dogs, not celebrate the founding of the freest, most prosperous country, spreader of freedom in world history.
You people have to see videos of it if they don't go, uh, obviously on that day to Israel.
Everything comes to a halt, including the busiest highways, freeways, throughways in Israel.
People get out of their car in the middle of the, of the highway and stand there for a minute of silence.
If we don't know what Americans died for, then we don't know what we stand for.
You know, I think about it because I went to Normandy Beach many years ago with my family, and I was blown away.
I-- It shook me up, the number of twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two-year-olds buried there.
They walked onto the beach like the most fortified, uh, uh, a wall in the world.
The, the German wall on, on, on the French, uh, border with, uh, uh, English Channel, and they knew a lot of them are gonna be blown up, killed, maimed, whatever.
I agree that it's a crisis, and y-you mentioned Fourth of July, which many of the viewers know that we have created a ritual for people to remember and celebrate Independence Day.
And, and many people around the country are probably gonna be doing it this year.
We're gonna be, uh, sharing it, time a-at the White House during the 250th celebration.
Do you think we could create a ritual also for Memorial Day? I mean, is there, is there a way where Americans could stand silent for one minute for our great country? Maybe we decide that it's, um, I don't know, eight PM Eastern, everybody just takes one minute to, to think about those who've served our country.
Should we do that? Should we come to a one-minute standstill all over the country on Memorial Day? I would be very interested to see how the vote would go.
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