Memorial Day

On Memorial Day and every day, let us remember the brave men and women who laid down their lives in both just wars and in unwise ones to preserve the freedoms we enjoy paid for with their blood in lonely places far from home and in battlefields too close to home. May we never forget their sacrifice. May we always honor their memory. May they rest in peace. 

Whatever our differences and despite the current unpleasant polarization that divides us, I pray we can be of one mind on the value of their sacrifice and raise one voice for one day to express our gratitude, and to show them that we may yet prove worthy of their sacrifice.