Can We Talk 2

Memorial Day Weekend Again

         It's time again to remember those who gave up their lives believing they were doing the right thing, defending their country. We have the freedom of speech, the freedom to vote and to argue because people thought this nation and its principles were worth defending with their lives.

         It is so easy to take our rights and freedoms for granted. It's easy for us to criticize our history. But the life we enjoy came at great cost and continues to cost in human life and injury. We owe our gratitude to those individuals and their families.They died or suffer now in vain only if we do not honor our country and continue the struggle to protect it.

         We must take up their cause and stand for them. We can not all take up arms or fly a plane or one of the myriad tasks they do. Yet in our small way, we can honor them and take a stand for our homeland.