Memorial Day is tomorrow and the unofficial start of Summer has arrived.
Chris and I are laying low this holiday weekend. We are going to finish the month of May without traveling anywhere. That has allowed us to recharge in preparation for the summer season. We will be heading off to Maryland during early June to visit family.
This weekend we remember and honor those who "gave the last full measure of devotion" for our country and our way of life.
I quote the final portion of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address as a thought for today:
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
and finally:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
-- Ronald Reagan
-- Bob Doan, Tequesta, FL
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