Saturday, May 28, 2011

More Memorial Meaning

The purpose of this weekend holiday is not to sell furniture or move the 2011 units still on the car lot. It is to commemorate the sacrifice of those who gave all that they had to give in the service of our country. It should not be about "deep, deep discounts" but should be about serious contemplation over how much it has taken to vouchsafe America's liberty. I doubt that those young men fighting to the last bullet on Bataan or bleeding out in Bastogne cared how much you would save on your hutch this Sunday. But they gave the "last full measure of devotion" anyway so your daughter could mortify you with her t-back on the first weekend at the beach this year or you could upchuck over the side of a party boat tomorrow on the lake. That though is one of the gifts of freedom their blood earned you- you can be as cavalier as you please- because better men are no longer here having earned you the right to forget the contribution they made and the even greater one they would have made had they survived protecting your freedom. The cost of liberty is blood, the price of freedom is dear, and the worth of a Republic that holds sacred the natural rights of man is incalculable.

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