I do not handle Memorial Day very well. I usually try to be doing something that keeps me occupied mentally. I remember too many people that I personally knew that gave their ALL for this Great Country.
There are not any words that can fully cover that simple FACT. These men and women gave their most precious thing, LIFE, in the service of their country. Many times this was not deliberate: Men hit by mortar fire rarely think they are going to be hit. There where times though when the fellow KNEW the odds where against him. He did what he felt needed to be done anyway. This many times was to protect or save his fellow soldiers. There are not word or metals/honors that can fully describe or honor this.
I am alive today because of actions taken in that frame of mind. Some of those fellows did not make it home. Amazingly most did. It is hard to see God's plan in those times.
So all I can do is THANK those men that came home under a flag. They will live forever in my minds eye.
I can not hear Taps being played without tears coming to my eyes. I can not visit the wall and read the names. I just am not strong enough to do that.
So this afternoon I took a walk in the pasture by myself. I talked to those men that have been gone for over forty years. I spoke their names and told them anything I knew about their families I told them how they where missed by their family and friends. I also shed quite a few tears too.
So here is my thought: BE glad that many of you, maybe most, do not know anyone , personally, that paid the ultimate price for freedom. This means that we have not had to have hundreds of thousands of men and women lost. I hope that remains a fact for a long time.
THANKS To those that have fallen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are not any words that can fully cover that simple FACT. These men and women gave their most precious thing, LIFE, in the service of their country. Many times this was not deliberate: Men hit by mortar fire rarely think they are going to be hit. There where times though when the fellow KNEW the odds where against him. He did what he felt needed to be done anyway. This many times was to protect or save his fellow soldiers. There are not word or metals/honors that can fully describe or honor this.
I am alive today because of actions taken in that frame of mind. Some of those fellows did not make it home. Amazingly most did. It is hard to see God's plan in those times.
So all I can do is THANK those men that came home under a flag. They will live forever in my minds eye.
I can not hear Taps being played without tears coming to my eyes. I can not visit the wall and read the names. I just am not strong enough to do that.
So this afternoon I took a walk in the pasture by myself. I talked to those men that have been gone for over forty years. I spoke their names and told them anything I knew about their families I told them how they where missed by their family and friends. I also shed quite a few tears too.
So here is my thought: BE glad that many of you, maybe most, do not know anyone , personally, that paid the ultimate price for freedom. This means that we have not had to have hundreds of thousands of men and women lost. I hope that remains a fact for a long time.
THANKS To those that have fallen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!