MEMORIAL DAY: Remember Those Who Paid The Ultimate Price For Our Freedom.
Monday, May 30th is Memorial Day, formerly called Decoration Day. Remember what it’s all about.
Memorial Day is a holiday of recognition and remembrance. It means so much more than hot dogs, parades, and the start of the summer. On Memorial Day, all Americans should take time to remember what the day is about. Honoring the people who laid down their lives to save our lives, protecting America and our freedoms. Please remember those who sacrificed, praying that God protects their souls and comforts their bereaved loved ones.
Think about this for a moment. In the past few years, many of our freedoms have been restricted because of a virus. Over-zealous politicians tried to keep those and other freedoms. However, an election can restore what we lostlwhat we lost. If those heroes paid the ultimate sacrifice and did not serve, we would be permanently bowing down to a tyrant w8ty no chance to vote them out; Freedom would never have an opportunity to return.
On Memorial Day, remember their sacrifices, appreciate your freedom, and offer a prayer:
A Memorial Day Prayer
May God bless the members of our armed forces who protect us from harm, on the land, in the air, and on the sea. May the Almighty cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighters and their families from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
On this day of remembrance, may the God of overflowing compassion, who lives in the highest and all worlds, give eternal rest to those who are now under the holy sheltering of his spiritual wings, making them rise ever more purely through the light of your brilliance. May the Lord bless their souls forever, and may he comfort the bereaved. May those of us who remain free never forget their ultimate sacrifice, and may the memories of those who gave their lives to protect America always be for a blessing.
The Original Order Creating the Memorial Day Holiday:
The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land. In this observance, no form or ceremony is prescribed, but Posts and comrades will, in their own way, arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.
We are here to play, Comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose among other things, “of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers sailors and Marines, who united to suppress the late rebellion.” What can aid more to assure this result than by cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead? We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security, is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.
If other eyes grow dull and other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain in us.
Let us, then, at the time appointed, gather around their sacred remains, and garland the passionless mounds above them with choicest flowers of springtime; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledge to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon the Nation’s gratitude—the soldiers and sailors widow and orphan.
It is the purpose of the Commander in Chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope that it will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades. He earnestly desires the public press to call attention to this Order, and lend its friendly aid in bringing it to the notice of comrades in all parts of the country in time for simultaneous compliance therewith.
President Reagan Memorial Day Tribute – We are Americans
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