MEMORIAL DAY

What does this day mean to you?  Great. A day off from work. The first holiday of summer.  Yea! Summer is officially here.  It means BBQ, potato salad, baked beans, and family gatherings. A trip to the beach, or the old fishing hole.  All good things. But, the question is “What does Memorial Day really mean?” 

Time for deep thinking. You wouldn’t be doing all these wonderful, entertaining, events if at least one percent of our fellow citizens were not sacrificing their whole lives to make this country safe for you to move about freely choosing how you will spend your days. Take a moment and offer a silent prayer for their safety in places where they are often unwanted.

I watched an NPR Memorial Day Concert last evening.  An excellent soul-searching, but entertaining, event honoring all our military from the War Between the States to the current issues in the world.  It is appropriate for every citizen to take a few minutes out of their free lives to remember those who have given their lives, and those who are living, but will never be the same – the disabled veterans.  Also, we owe allegiance to those thousands of families who hold up the hands of their loved one serving the country.  They should be honored for the hours of worry, the moves, the loneliness, the struggle to keep normalcy around their children. Say a special prayer for them also.

Many of you support open borders, socialized life style, government intervention into your lives, and all the free utopia hawked from the election podium, and you shout that America should not be exceptional in the world. Have you studied your history books – I don’t mean read history – have you STUDIED the facts? The road to socialism is clearly defined and the results demonstrated in current events occurring in Venezuela today.  Hugo Chávez stood at the UN spewing his socialism to the world a few years ago.  He called President George Bush, SATAN.  He said, as he stood in the place where Mr. Bush spoke only hours earlier, “I can smell the sulfur.  Yes, SATAN stood here.” He ruled his country as he spoke – utopia at first – but now, after a few years, total depravity, no food, no jobs, no hope for the future with a still dominate, controlling government oppressing the people.  IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT? BE SURE YOU LISTEN carefully to the rhetoric of the socialist. They do not have your best interests in mind.  They are reaching for control of your lives.

We must guard the freedoms many died to protect. We are losing them as the days pass. Think carefully of how you must guard your words, i.e. freedom of speech, you feel threatened by being religious, i.e. we can’t refer to ourselves living in a Christian nation; it’s politically incorrect to think religious freedom is a right. Not only are First Amendment rights questioned, but now Second Amendment rights are threatened.  

Those folks we stop to honor on Memorial Day fought and died for the Constitutional Rights others attempted to take from us in years past.  Have we made mistakes? Of course, huge mistakes. Will we make future mistakes? Of course, maybe even worse than before.  But NO ONE, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE has offered a better solution to living free with human rights held in esteem than our current Constitution. We must continue to provide the free, really free, country for our future generations.  Think about your choices while you enjoy your holiday, and try to make educated, knowledgeable choices in the future. 

Well, what do I know? I’m just an old lady without a clue. Happy Memorial Day to everyone!