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Our nation has many occasions set aside to show gratitude for special people, such as Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day. I truly appreciate the significance of these occasions, but genuinely caring for our parents is about much more than an annual phone call and an Amazon-delivered gift.

While I admire the efforts of children who remember their parents on such occasions by sending greeting cards, gifts, and even visiting them, it saddens me to see so many of our age group and younger abandon and alienate their parents in their elderly years.

Just visit a nursing home and you will see many...