What is Memorial Day? It’s the day that we remember all those brave men and women who have sacrificed to protect our liberties and our lives so that we could be safe from harm.
This video may help you to understand.
From Hot Air, a quote from Ronald Reagan.
Memorial Day is an occasion of special importance to all Americans, because it is a day sacred to the memory of all those Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for the liberties we enjoy. We will never forget or fail to honor these heroes to whom we owe so much. We honor them best when we resolve to cherish and defend the liberties for which they gave their lives. Let us resolve to do all in our power to assure the survival and the success of liberty so that our children and their children for generations to come can live in an America in which freedom’s light continues to shine.
The Congress, in establishing Memorial Day, called for it to be a day of tribute to America’s fallen, and also a day of national prayer for lasting peace. This Nation has always sought true peace. We seek it still. Our goal is peace in which the highest aspirations of our people, and people everywhere, are secure: peace with freedom, with justice, and with opportunity for human development. This is the permanent peace for which we pray, not only for ourselves but for all generations.
The defense of peace, like the defense of liberty, requires more than lip service. It requires vigilance, military strength, and the willingness to take risks and to make sacrifices. The surest guarantor of both peace and liberty is our unflinching resolve to defend that which has been purchased for us by our fallen heroes.
On Memorial Day, let us pray for peace — not only for ourselves, but for all those who seek freedom and justice.
And check some of my Medal of Honor posts:
- Navy SEAL Michael Murphy awarded Medal of Honor
- How Sal Giunta earned a Medal of Honor and lived to tell about it
- What can Christians learn from Rob Miller’s Medal of Honor story?
If you want to help out our troops, you can send them things through Soldier’s Angels.
God Bless Our Troops!
UPDATE: I am listening to this podcast from the Heritage Foundation about the origin and meaning of Memorial Day.
For more reading, why not check out some of the military bloggers?
If you want to help out our troops, you can send them things through Soldier’s Angels.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
Here in Australia (and New Zealand), we have Anzac Day. It’s on a different day of the year from Memorial Day, but I think it’s always important to remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for others, no matter which country they come from!
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