I know dear friends that some time has passed since I have posted...Let's catch up...
Between the last few weeks of school and preparing for Allen's homecoming life has been a series of chaotic events.
Now as Memorial Day weekend slowly passes I find myself reflecting on the meaning of freedom. I am truly blessed to be able to spend Memorial Day with my Soldier home and safe from harm. Yet while he is home others hold the gate so that we may continue to be free....They stand up so others can remain sitting. They protect our traditions and our way of life. I have been around the world and I have seen just how good we have it in the United States. No, everyone may not drive a fancy car or live in a mansion. But we all have the opportunity to be who and what we want to be, without fear and without persecution. These freedoms were not given to us, they were paid for. Paid for with blood, sweat and tears of the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines that sacrificed their lives so that we may continue to be free. So that hopefully, one day our children will never know war.
My brothers and sisters in arms will never be forgotten, their sacrifice will not be in vain, they will be remembered always in the hearts of those that remain free.
Thank you is such a small acknowledgement of the sacrifices our military members make. To those that still serve.....THANK YOU!! To those that walked before us THANK YOU!! To those that will come after us...THANK YOU!! To those that have laid their lives down so that my children can be free under a flag that they believe in...THANK YOU!!!!
Monday May 31 @ 1500 please observe a moment of silence for those that have given their lives. Say a prayer for them and the families they left behind. For the families are the bearers of grief. The fallen have passed the torch of freedom to the living...let's not let their deaths be in vain. Honor them and remember them for they are the reason the Stars and Stripes fly today.
TAPS
by: Major General Daniel Butterfield
Day is done...
Gone the sun
From the lake...
From the hills...
From the sky.
All is well...
Safely rest
God is nigh.
Fading light....
Dims the sight
And a star....
Gems the sky....
Gleaming bright
From afar....
Drawing nigh
Falls the night.
