MEMORIAL DAY 2025

MEMORIAL DAY… reaching out soberly and in gratitude for all those whose lives have been and continue to be spent in protecting our freedoms — those abroad and those at home. Some will be lost today. Others are remembering the cost they and others have paid. Let us take nothing for granted.

Silent reflection is appropriate, along with the sober realization that if we do not all as “we the people” fight for our freedoms, and support those leading the charge, no efforts to preserve them will endure beyond our current distress. As in 1776, so in 2025. We live in precarious times.

Many in 1776 did not know the nation was in jeopardy; some wrongly clung to an abusive establishment as their comfort zone; only the few led the charge to freedom. REMEMBER! What was won in the past has been forgotten while people slumbered, but reclaiming freedom is the privilege, duty, right and massive reward available to all. Let us all be on the front lines of whatever we can contribute, while there is yet time. Generations to come depend on it. No task is too small, no contribution insignificant.

John F. Kennedy’s most famous quote: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” This quote, delivered in his inaugural address, encourages civic engagement and service to the nation. It is considered one of the most memorable and inspiring lines in American political history.

The present war is for our Constitutional freedoms, for a restoration and refinement of justice based on the our foundational documents and the Rule of Law, without which peace will never be attainable.

Those who carry the scars — those who remember and re-enact history for the sake of remembrance… This is their day… We owe gratitude to them and their loved ones for their sacrifices.

We choose to win this war for our future or we lose it.

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