Please remember why today is a National Holiday and spend a few minutes thinking of the sacrifices so many have made so that the rest of us can enjoy the Country we hold so dear.
We can best honor our fallen heroes by reflecting on the principles for which they lost their lives.
While our wars have not always been the result of the purest of motives, our warriors motives have always been pure.
Please, let’s all endeavor to honor our fallen by striving to live our lives at the same high standards that they portrayed as they expelled their last breath.
A few of my favorite Memorial Day quotes:
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”- Mark Twain
“If you want to thank a soldier, be the kind of American worth fighting for.” – Unknown
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”- Martin Luther King Jr
“It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”- Norman Schwarzkopf
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”- Theodore Roosevelt
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We did not pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”- Ronald Reagan
... and my favorite quote:
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”- Charles de Gaulle.
I will always hold dear the memories and sacrifices of our fallen heroes.
We can best honor our fallen heroes by reflecting on the principles for which they lost their lives.
While our wars have not always been the result of the purest of motives, our warriors motives have always been pure.
Please, let’s all endeavor to honor our fallen by striving to live our lives at the same high standards that they portrayed as they expelled their last breath.
A few of my favorite Memorial Day quotes:
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”- Mark Twain
“If you want to thank a soldier, be the kind of American worth fighting for.” – Unknown
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”- Martin Luther King Jr
“It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”- Norman Schwarzkopf
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”- Theodore Roosevelt
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We did not pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”- Ronald Reagan
... and my favorite quote:
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”- Charles de Gaulle.
I will always hold dear the memories and sacrifices of our fallen heroes.