MEMORIAL DAY

Fellow bloggers I ask that you attend your local Memorial Day activities a week from Monday. Irrespective of how you may view the military, this day is set aside to honor those who have fallen in defense of our nation during current and previous conflicts.

Those we honor hail from each corner of our nation, from all ethnic backgrounds and each segment of our society. These are the men and women who could have been a childhood friend, a trusted comrad, a relative, even a family member, and the list goes on.

Whether they fell at Bunker Hill or Baghdad or any of the myriad of locales in between, they each answered when called. Many of these heroes remain on foreign soil but as with those resting here, their spirit resides with us all next Monday.

The sobering but reassuring sound of Taps will remind some of the smell of cordite, the bond shared in closely held memory by those who survive, and the utter insanity of circumstance that is conflict.

Take a few seconds to reflect upon what has been sacrificed toward your way of life and then do what it is that you can to better your community.

Those who have fallen deserve no less.

Just my two cents worth.

Mike

Submitted by hutch866 on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 10:20am.

The Army band will be at the Fayetteville Amphitheater that weekend and I went last year and these guys are good and it's a great show and I hope to see some bloggers there.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

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