Lest We Forget...

As we go through our day, bar-b-queing, spending time with friends and family, may we take a few moments to remember the reason we are enjoying this beautiful day off of work and school. May we take a few moments to give thanks to those brave men and women who have laid down thier lives so that freedom may prevail. Without their sacrifices we would not be the truly remarkable country that we are today. In the words of our former Commander in Chief "May God continue to Bless America!!!" Memorial Day Poem

By: Kelly Strong

I watched the flag pass by one day,

It fluttered in the breeze.

A young Marine saluted it,

and then he stood at ease.

I looked at him in uniform,

so young, so tall, so proud,

With square cut hair and eyes alert

He'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him

had fallen through the years?

How many died on foreign soil,

How many mothers' tears?

How many pilots planes shot down?

How many died at sea?

How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?

No, freedom isn't free.

I heard the sound of Taps one night,

when everything was still.

I listened to the buggler play

and felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times

that Taps had meant "Amen".

When a flag had draped a coffin

of a brother or a friend.

I thought of all the children,

of the mothers and the wives,

Of fathers, sons, and husbands

with interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard,

at the bottom of the sea.

Of unmarked graves in Arlington,

No, freedom isn't free!