I just wanted to take time to give thanks for our soldiers who are presently serving our great country and those who have paid the greatest price for our freedom and safety. Remember those fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq and that the fight they are fighting there could very well be on our own soil. I believe that our soldiers are the very best of example of what an American embodies. A caring hand to the world for those who desire peace and, as the admiral of the Japanese navy stated, a sleeping giant with terrible resolve.

I don't believe I could state it better than one of this nations greatest speakers: "Once each May, amid the quiet hills and rolling lanes and breeze-brushed trees of Arlington National Cemetery, far above the majestic Potomac and the monuments and memorials of our Nation's Capital just beyond, the graves of America's military dead are decorated with the beautiful flag that in life these brave souls followed and loved. This scene is repeated across our land and around the world, wherever our defenders rest. Let us hold it our sacred duty and our inestimable privilege on this day to decorate these graves ourselves - with a fervent prayer and a pledge of true allegiance to the cause of liberty, peace, and country for which America's own have ever served and sacrificed... Our pledge and our prayer this day are those of free men and free women who know that all we hold dear must constantly be built up, fostered, revered and guarded vigilantly from those in every age who seek its destruction. We know, as have our Nation's defenders down through the years, that there can never be peace without its essential elements of liberty, justice and independence. Those true and only building blocks of peace were the lone and lasting cause and hope and prayer that lighted the way of those whom we honor and remember this Memorial Day. To keep faith with our hallowed dead, let us be sure, and very sure, today and every day of our lives, that we keep their cause, their hope, their prayer, forever our country's own." - Ronald Reagan

Thank you for those who fight to protect our country!

 

That is very well said! Alot of Thanks to all who have served and who are currently serving. Have a brother in the navy, on the USS Enterprise.. couldnt be more proud of him.

 

Couldn't agree more! Thankyou Veterans and those curently serving!