Memorial Day

Sorry this is a day or so late – it’s a traveling week and I haven’t been to the Internet until now.

 

I want to be sure to thank and appreciate all the veterans that have made this country a wonderful place to live.  There are so many who have sacrificed so much that we sometimes take for granted.  I want to spend a few minutes and a few words today to give my deepest respect to all who have served.  

 

Our country, our service men and women, have fought many wars in order to establish and maintain such freedom.  We know about the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I and World War II, and Vietnam.  There are others, too.  Others we might call ‘minor’ wars, like the War of 1812, the French and Indian War, the Korean War and others, are only really minor for those of us who didn’t fight in them or lose a loved owe who did.  

 

Our servicemen and women have given us a legacy of freedom that we enjoy.  The freedom these men and women have fought for is one of the staples of our country.  People from around the world will risk all they have to come to America to enjoy the freedom we possess.  The freedom that these people come to enjoy, though, was hard fought.  Men and women in all of these wars (and in Iraq and Afghanistan today)  fought and died over an ideal they deemed ‘worth it’.  The ideal of freedom has driven American men and women to fight and die so that their families, children, grand-children, and grand-children for generations to come. 

 

So, thank you veterans.  Thank you for keeping the ideal alive.  Thank you for the freedom that I enjoy today.