MY SAY: VETERANS DAY
Some words stir the soul when I think of those who served and serve in defense of our nation.
President Ronald Reagan on Veterans Day November 11, 1985 at Arlington Cemetery
“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.”
President Franklin Roosevelt in a letter to the families of fallen soldiers:
” He stands in the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live and grow and increase its blessings. Freedom lives and through it he lives in a way that humbles the undertakings of most men.”
Hannah Senesh, World War 2 hero and martyr and poet who was imprisoned and tortured but did not reveal the secrets of her mission to save Hungarian Jews. She was tried and executed. From her poem “Blessed is the Match”:
“Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake.”
God Bless our Veterans….rsk
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