Memorial Day in the US
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Our country, with all it's wrestling with itself to live up to it's declared principles as outlined in our founding documents, is still a young nation.
At 72 years of age, I have memories of sitting at my great grandfathers knee listening to his stories. He was born in 1866, one year after the end of the civil war. He lived to the ripe old age of 98. In my youthful lack of perspective, I thought of him as ancient, as part of the very distant past.
Now I realize the other side of the issue. How truly young the American experiment is and how fragile. It only survives as the last best hope of the world because Americans were willing to fight and die for freedoms that most regimes have failed to offer to their citizens.
Never forget. Honor their sacrifice.
At 72 years of age, I have memories of sitting at my great grandfathers knee listening to his stories. He was born in 1866, one year after the end of the civil war. He lived to the ripe old age of 98. In my youthful lack of perspective, I thought of him as ancient, as part of the very distant past.
Now I realize the other side of the issue. How truly young the American experiment is and how fragile. It only survives as the last best hope of the world because Americans were willing to fight and die for freedoms that most regimes have failed to offer to their citizens.
Never forget. Honor their sacrifice.
I have a different take. Now, I realize that there’s folks like you’re talking about, but I’d rather have people thinking about vets in general, even if they miss the particular point of the holiday.
And yes, I’m a combat vet.
Governor Ronald Reagan said at his 1967 gubernatorial inaugural address, "Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people."
Point taken sir. I am firmly in the court of “I have done none of the things in my life or for country that require recognition for those choices”. Does that mean that no light should be shown on vets issues, no sir! I am that guy right or wrong, when at a sporting event or whatever when the announcer says will all the veterans stand up, I will not. I too sir have seen many things in a hostile environment but, I get your drift.