Memorial Day Weekend isn't about BBQ and fun. It's not about the beach or parties.
It's about the brave young men and women who have given their lives for the freedom that enables you and your family to have a worry-free BBQ and fun in the sun this weekend.
Over 1,700 soldiers have been killed in Iraq.
That's 1,700 families ripped apart and missing someone they love.
Someone who gave their life so you can have freedom.
So before you fire up another burger, STOP and give thanks and remembrance to the brave young men and women who died and were injured preserving that freedom for you.
There are over 1,700 dead men and women. And there are over 12,000 injured and severly injured men and women rushed back to America every week. There families are spending this Memorial Day, and every other day by their side.
"The Ryan family stood vigil, gathered around a hospital bed in Building 10, Ward Five East — a surgical ward at the National Naval Medical Center. Before them lay Marine Cpl. Eddie Ryan, silent and pale, a grievous bullet wound in his brain and a feeding tube in his belly, straight through the "N" in a blue tattoo that spelled "RYAN."
...The number of service members wounded in Iraq has surged past 12,000, half of them injured so badly that they cannot return to duty. Many of the most critical cases end up here at the National Naval Medical Center, established in the early days of World War II."
Read the whole thing.
For the Wounded, No Miracle Is Small
On this Memorial Day, I remember the lives and families of
Sgt. Rafael Peralta and
Corey Mracek and
Stuart W. Moore who gave their lives so you and I could be free.
We can never repay their sacrifice. But we should always stop, look up to heaven and say, "THANKS."
Without their sacrifice, we could NOT BE FREE.
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