Memorial Day 2011
As you celebrate Memorial Day today, remember its real purpose. When you’re with your family today, please remind them the sacrifice this day memorializes, and the young men and women who’ve given their all for us to be able to celebrate it. In all of America’s wars, approximately 1.2 million Americans have paid the ultimate price. It is only fitting and proper that we honor that sacrifice and make it known to all our appreciation for what they fought for and have helped preserve.
Enjoy the day but never forget.
~McQ
Twitter: @McQandO
Although Memorial Day is set aside to recognize America’s war dead, I’d like to ask that you also pause to reflect upon those who died while serving who did not die in combat. It takes two hands for me to count the number of men I went to college with who died in the military, and not a one ever saw combat.
Agreed … thanks for the reminder.
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