05/25/2026
I invite you to look at this picture every year on Memorial Day and remember. And the older we get, the more deeply, I think, we feel it.
- All of the freedoms we get to enjoy in this great country
- The children and grandchildren in our lives that we get to laugh with today
- The vacation we’ll get to enjoy together sometime this year
- The families, friendships and lives we've all been blessed with and been able to build in whatever way we choose to work at building …
.. all enabled by young men who did not get to enjoy these things, so that you and I could.
And they were YOUNG. Ronald Reagan put this in striking perspective:
“It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country, in defense of us, in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray haired. But most of them were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives—the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for our country, for us. And all we can do is remember.”
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to every family who sacrificed a loved one so that we could enjoy our loved ones today.
"Greater love has no man than this; that someone lay down his life for his friends."
– John 15:3
