In Remembrance

For those of us who truly appreciate the sacrifice made by our brave men and women in the Armed Services, there is truly a moving web site which celebrates the life and honors the death of our servicemembers who have died in the line of duty. Legacy.com has some great tributes to our fallen heroes. Be sure and click on the "guest book" option under the servicemember's name, and read the comments from grateful Americans.

Also, over at Blogs for Bush, Mark Noonan has some great thoughts up regarding our fallen soldiers. It is difficult for those of us who have not lost a loved one in war to understand what kind of pain these families are going through. All we can do is thank them, and let them know that though they may hear unkind, uninformed comments from some on the Left regarding the mission their loved one died for, most of us in America are grateful from the bottom of our hearts. Since they won't hear that from our mainstream media, we must let them know in other ways...person to person, letters to the editor, funds like Sean Hannity's Freedom Alliance.

Don't let their sacrifice be in vain! Stay involved, support our troops and our President, and verbally set straight anyone who puts them down.

Happy Memorial Day!

JAS ADDS: Do yourselves a favor and check out this Mark Steyn column from last year's Memorial Day. As usual from the "one-man global content provider," he hits the nail on the head:

[T]hat's the difference between then and now: the loss of proportion. They had victims galore back in 1863, but they weren't a victim culture. They had a lot of crummy decisions and bureaucratic screw-ups worth re-examining, but they weren't a nation that prioritized retroactive pseudo-legalistic self-flagellating vaudeville over all else. They had hellish setbacks but they didn't lose sight of the forest in order to obsess week after week on one tiny twig of one weedy little tree.

There is something not just ridiculous but unbecoming about a hyperpower 300 million strong whose elites - from the deranged former vice president down - want the outcome of a war, and the fate of a nation, to hinge on one freaky jailhouse; elites who are willing to pay any price, bear any burden, as long as it's pain-free, squeaky-clean and over in a week. The sheer silliness dishonors the memory of all those we're supposed to be remembering this Memorial Day.

Playing by Gore-Kennedy rules, the Union would have lost the Civil War, the rebels the Revolutionary War, and the colonists the French and Indian Wars. There would, in other words, be no America. Even in its grief, my part of New Hampshire understood that 141 years ago. We should, too.