Squandering Sacrifices

There have been thousands of men and women who died for this country, thousands more who live with significant service-related disabilities. Add to that number the many thousands of family members whose lives have been affected or destroyed by the deaths or disabilities of their loved ones and you have a grim picture of the cost of war. If you want a wake up call go to any of the veterans cemeteries and gaze out over a sea of white crosses adorned with American flags. Go to the veteran's hospital, sit down in one of the waiting areas and just watch. See the never ending stream of men and women who have lost something of themselves to war. Now ask yourself, how seriously do we take those sacrifices and the suffering involved. Many are content to reap the benefits paid for by the few.

Please don't be one of those many who forget the slain veterans and the wounded ones. Be grateful to them not just on Memorial Day but every day for without them there would be no freedom. Year after year more of our freedoms are disappearing, even the most fundamental ones. We can choose to sit idly by and let the sacrifices of those who suffered for freedom be squandered by politics and political correctness, or we can stand up for American liberty, in the voting process and letting our voices be heard in every legal way possible by the politicians who trample on freedom so carelessly.

Thank you Veterans, those of you who paid the price for freedom and those of you who are still paying it. God bless you all