Today we honor those men and women who have served their country on behalf of is all. They answered the call. They gave the best years of their lives to protect our freedoms. They put themselves in harm’s way. They put themselves between danger and us. They stood in the gap.
History will remember the conflicts but forget them, but in the case of father, son, brother or sister, we will not.
For many, their lives will never be the same. Small town boy… hometown girl… innocence lost. They experienced the worst of humanity that we might enjoy some simple pleasure, hardly aware of the inequity of the transaction.
Many traveled far, woke up in strange lands, endured foreign languages, and navigated differing world-views. One day of remembrance is not sufficient to offset years of service, and it is such an embarrassingly small token to give in return, but thank you, anyway.
Thank you.
Thank you, John, for a very touching tribute to our veterans. I’ve read many tributes today, but yours resonates especially well.
I too enjoyed your tribute John, however; I feel it should have been posted on it’s own without the Catch Elf included. You stated that history will remember the conflicts but forget them and immediately went from thanking them to requesting something totally unrelated. The readers last thought will probably be the Elf and not the veterans. Sad! 🙁
Sorry. Didn’t think about this kind of reaction. As you can probably tell, we’ve been running the elf piece every day now for a while. I see the Isaiah House messages as applying to those who are interested in that and not something everyone should feel inclined to support. Perhaps we need to rethink how we frame that. Thanks, Carol, for pointing this out.
John