Reverential Thoughts On Memorial Day Memorial Day is a day set aside to honor ordinary people who made an extraordinary sacrifice in defense of our liberty. It is a day to honor them for their sacrifice, and to contemplate what we must do every day to ensure we are, indeed, worthy of that sacrifice. To that end, we offer an inspirational thought on the event of this reverent day. It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country, in defense of us, in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray haired. But most of them were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives--the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for our country, for us. And all we can do is remember. --Ronald Reagan
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 12:40:03 +0000
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