I spent two hours last night watching a Memorial Day celebration service in Washington DC as people gathered to celebrate and remember our fallen troops from our 20th and 21st century wars. Chief among the spectators/participants were surviving spouses and family. It was unutterably wonderful and inutterably sad at the same time...
This is a day for barbecues and family interactions, as well. I just hope each event that happens today offers at least a moment of silence for the real reason for this holiday. For it is a holy day: millions of people have given their lives for the lives and freedom we enjoy in America and around the world today. And each of those lost lives touched countless other lives. Indeed, not one of us is excempt. We all are beneficiaries of the sacrifices that have been made.
Let us never forget. Freedom isn't free. It has cost a lot of soldiers everything, and their families and loved ones nearly everything.
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