As members and attenders of Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting (Quakers), we join with Northside Friends Meeting in Chicago in inviting everyone to hold this Memorial Day as a day of mourning also for the losses suffered by all people, locally and around the world, during the pandemic. We invite you to join with us and with your loved ones and communities to mourn together the world’s losses and sorrows. We also invite you to join us in holding a moment of silence at sundown on Memorial Day, when we will light a candle and step outside, and grieve, and remember others who are grieving.