Today, many of us will celebrate Memorial Day with barbeques and picnic in the park with our families, others will remember Memorial Day reflecting on a loved one who sacrificed to give us the freedom that we enjoy.
As we take the time this Memorial Day let’s not forget those brave men and women who are serving the cause of freedom in far flung outpost’s across the globe enabling us to live in freedom. The armed forces of this nation are currently sweltering in the heat in Iraq and Afghanistan not for glory but to bring democracy to people who have never known it.
The question then becomes what have we done for this country? Too often we hear in recent years of the “Greatest Generation” who served freedoms cause during World War II and now are fading into the annals’ of history.
Another generation of Americans is again rolling back the scourge of tyranny preventing that evil from reaching our shores. The methods may be different, the threat is different than what we have ever faced but the sacrifice is the same.
Let’s remember them, let’s remember the sacrifice of their families, let’s not forget what they are doing! If we do then as a nation we will regret that we didn’t do more or didn’t care. If the cause of freedom is not worth defending then the American ideal of freedom for all will perish.
With this current generation of Americans on freedoms wall we will never be defeated. This is the next Greatest Generation!
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