Memorial Day Remembrance

kenmabmcc · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 12:49 am Post subject: Memorial Day Remembrance

Quote:

“Humility must always be the portion of any man who
receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and
sacrifices of his friends.”
- Dwight David Eisenhower

http://www.fcnl.org/smith/memorial.htm

After the bloodiest 100 years of recorded history, disputes continue to be settled predominately through the application of the technology of death rather than through the arts of mediation, conciliation, and reconciliation that are the silent plea of all of the victims of war – warriors, civilians, families, friends, all of humanity.

In the end, only when this silence is broken will humankind begin to move beyond the recurring cycles of war and the rhetoric that elevates “dying for” (so that others will not “have died in vain”) above “living for” in the hierarchy of human principles. It is past time to break this silence, to declare that “support for the troops” is not demonstrated by continuing to increase the number of tombs and monuments on which flags and flowers will be placed next year.

We remember all those who have died for their countries, in war.

seaeagle

Hear Hear.

My thanks go to all soldiers who have sacrificed life and limb in the fight for freedom. Special thanks goes to those from America who helped prevent the Japanese invasion of my beloved country during World War 2.

Sgt Schultz · Joined: Dec 07, 2002 Posts: 7378 Location: St. Louis area

Thanks to all that have served and may those who died in service to their country rest in peace. Honour the freedoms they died to preserve so that their sacrifices are not in vain.

mommabear · Joined: Feb 20, 2003 Posts: 6319

God bless them all, living and dead.