Memorial day is about remembrance of those in uniform who sacrificed their lives so that we may live free of tyranny.
Every year it is one of many sobering reminders of how freedom is never free, and there is always the lurking peril concocted by evil to usurp power and leave us in servitude.
Always be vigilant, and defiant, of those --irrespective of ideology-- who, in clever guises, seek totalitarian control in the name of the "greater good." This threat is lately disguised within such noble sounding "isms" -- "globalism/liberalism/multiculturalism"-- that forfeit individual identity (as in a nation/people who share a common heritage/language). This endeavor is complemented with the need to make us forget the lessons of history to ensure complacency, denial and betrayal.
With continued appeasement, and the longer the head remains in the sand, the greater will be the human and economic costs. What is tragic is how human beings fail to learn from the past. A past in which so many made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom and way of life.
Breaking from family tradition, we will head out to the Quantico National Cemetery later in the week as one of our boys is sick. Perhaps, on reflection, this delay isn't unfortunate. To pay our respects, as a family, to the fallen when the crowds have departed, and the bands, and the bugles are once again silent.
