Memorial Day

Let us take time to remember what the last Monday in May really means. 

Memorial Day is a day of mourning to honor those who paid the ultimate price for our freedoms.  As Americans, the significance of such a day needs to stay with us and be more than just a day off from work or a chance to attend a summer party.  Please don’t forget, instead offer a time for contemplation to those who were lost to us.  Remember them and what they did so the United States could remain free and vigilant.

"...gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with choicest flowers of springtime....let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us as sacred charges upon the Nation's gratitude,--the soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan." --General John Logan, General Order No. 11, 5 May 1868.