Thanks to all who read this article or my final version of it - Memorial Day: We Owe Grateful Thanks.
Freedom's hopes often serve up distorted expectations about the costs of war and peace.
I have recently visited Charleston, SC, whose Revolutionary War citizens, it is said, anticipated a quick colonial victory against British naval forces along their coast. They almost pick nicked, awaiting the outcome in mere hours.
Events crushed predictions as the British siege continued for more than 600 harrowing days and nights.
Histories of every battle of every American war at home or afar include accounts of shocking hours fighting or plodding into days, months, and years. Losses and gains, failures and victories, surrender and endurance, survival and death swing as pendulums of history-in-the-making through anguish, bravery, fear, and blood.
In every generation of every race and region across America, one large free nation remembers and honors those who have defended America in the face of aggression and terror.
Fighters, medical corps, supply staff, chaplains, and other military have died in service pledged for America, their home. Some embedded with them have shared the same result and cost.
Whatever their personal needs or motivations, these joined in the cause of freedom. As part of their vowed duty, they knew the possibility of death accompanied them.
Freedom inherently exerts costs we wish no people should have to pay. Yet through the years those costs have been required; they have been paid by a few on behalf of comrades and multitudes at home.
Grateful for their ultimate sacrifice for us, on this Memorial Day we honor them, thanking God for their lives and service for our freedom.
» left by Sandra E. Graham(2,260) Sandra E. Graham from Paragould, Ar. USA (190 days 1 hour ago.)
Beautiful article, Jane. Every day we pray for our men and women serving their country in a land that holds no love for a Christian society. And today we honor those who have fallen in their fight to preserve the right to remain Christians and the freedom of all religious faiths. Thank you for sharing with us. Sandra.
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