Honoring fallen Americans
On Memorial Day 2024, we remember the fallen war dead, and I talk about how we might honor their legacy. It is also our collective obligation to perfect as best we can what they did not live to see.
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Thank you for such a beautiful tribute to our fallen heroes.
Steve, thank you for this. That "monster behind the tree": We know who he is. As a Veteran, I am reminded of a mantra heard every now and then among the ranks: "Yours is not to question how or why. Yours is but to do or die." My license plate frame reads, "I am a Veteran. My Oath never dies." If only the Donald Trumps and the other lowlifes who course through our lives daily would honor that: Their OATH. 400,000+ plus of our Treasure spilled their blood on foreign soil to quell the slaughterous appetite of Adolf Hitler. Today, we have our own Adolf Hitler: Donald John Trump. The monster behind the tree. It is a challenge for me to even try to understand how one man can harbor so much hate, so much deception and dishonesty; so much venom. He and his acolytes spit on the graves of those who gave all to secure a free and democratic world. The wickedness that Trump embodies disgraces those who have died, those who have served; and those who do serve. We are better than he. We must hold tight to the fight that those men and women fought and who shed their blood for the preservation of the freedom we enjoy. We cannot be naive or gullible, as our enemy walks among us. They cannot win. Otherwise, those lives lost were lost for naught.