Remembering the Fallen

Tomorrow is Memorial Day, the official day of remembrance for those who gave their "last full measure of devotion" to this country.  We have a duty, as citizens, to do this.


The Fallen are the Ultimate Sheepdogs.  They have met the Wolves on the field of battle, and have paid the greatest price to keep us safe.  Thus the ground upon which we live is sacred ground.


Abraham Lincoln said it best in his Gettysburg Address, "But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

 So while Memorial Day is for us to honor the Fallen, it is also a clarion call for us to take up their cause, in our own ways, so that their sacrifice will not have been in vain.