Memorial Day Is Upon Us...

 A Day To Remember Not Celebrate

    Remember Memorial Day and It's Fallen

 

 

Another Memorial Day is upon us. We are less than one week away from the observation of it and yet this question in me still arises. Why do we take such a solemn occasion and add the word Happy to the front of it and set of fireworks and have picnics and family celebrations to it?

This has never made sense to me.  It makes even less sense now I have a husband who spent 23 years in the Military and will suffer from his invisible wounds for the rest of his life.  I am blessed I have my husband, as many families no longer do. Their Service Member paid the ultimate sacrifice so we could wish everyone a "Happy" Memorial Day.  I am sure if you were to ask anyone of those grieving families if this is a “happy” day they would surely say no.

 

Memorial Day isn't a day set aside to picnic.  It is a solemn day of Remembrance. It is a day to remember all those people who lost their lives protecting our Country for the tyranny of hateful and destructive people who mean nothing more than harm to us. It is a day to be thankful for the Service Members sacrifices so at we can continue to live in a Country where our freedoms are who we are to our very core of being and what our Country was founded upon.

·       These freedoms are the very things that allows us to speak our minds even when others do not agree.

·       These freedoms allow us the right to bear arms to protect our homes and families against people who wish to do us harm.

·       These freedoms allow us to publically protest against such things that we as a group we may not agree upon.

·       These freedoms allow us to hold our heads high as a Nation and allow us to fly our American flags even higher. 

 

Freedom that is what our Nation is founded upon. That is what our men and women in uniform know to be true to the very core of their being.  It has molded their character into the finest 1% that America has known through the past, in the present, and long into the future.

 

The Servicemen and women who sacrificed their lives for the sake of duty and honor deserve to be recognized and remembered on this quickly approaching holiday we call Memorial Day.
Please take the time this coming weekend to remember our Fallen Heroes and the sacrifices they made. Don't forget as you are remembering to say a special prayer, to pray for their loved ones they left behind.  Memorial Day isn't a day of celebration for them.  For many of them, it is a day of great sadness, loneliness, and grieving.  It is a day many families will shed a tear or more whether it be openly expressed or behind the closed doors of their hearts. The pain of remembering may be a hard and raw emotion to them or it may be older one that is just a memory, but every Fallen Hero is loved and missed by someone.  We owe it to them and their families to "Remember" this day and not get lost in the hype of picnics, celebrations, and fireworks.

 

Please, I have a simple request, which I ask coming from the place of Honoring my Fallen Dad and living with a wounded husband, to take the time to remember and to teach our next generation, that being our children, the real meaning behind Memorial Day.  Let us not forget our Fallen Heroes coming weekend.