Remembering Those Who Sacrificed on Memorial Day
Terry Trippany on May 26 2008 at 10:54 am | Filed under: Feature Article
Memorial Day is a day of ceremonies and speeches. Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live.
President Ronald Reagan spoke these words on May 28, 1984, at Arlington National Cemetery on the site of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in honor of an unknown serviceman who gave the ultimate sacrifice during the Vietnam war.
Let us remember all of our fallen soldiers and all of those that sacrificed for our country on this Memorial Day.
I, for one, am thankful for all American troops, both past and present who have served this country. On March 31st, my father-in-law passed away. He was a Marine in the Pacific Theater during World War II and stationed in Guam. He didn’t like to talk about the experiences he had there. At his funeral a Marine honor guard presented my Mother-in-law with the flag that draped his coffin. It was an extremely moving ceremony. So this Memorial Day is a little more poignant for my wife and myself.
I hope you have a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day. I invite you and your readers to my blog to see my Memorial Day tribute.
Memorial Day 2008…
On this Memorial Day, I’d like to quote the third stanza of “America, The Beautiful” written by Katharine Lee Bates.
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