Memorial Day…
I won’t say happy Memorial Day because while it’s a weekend for enjoyment for many, for others it’s a solemn walk down a memory lane remembering those who were lost in so many wars and conflicts. Friends, family, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers. While the mute white crosses and bronze markers stand silent in cemeteries worldwide, and are names engraved on monuments, countless others remain in sort of a limbo due to the ravages of war on their physical and mental health. Still living but who also sacrificed in ways that will ultimately mean their demise. Those are the living dead from wars gone by.
Our freedom was not won by the mouths of politicians, but on the blood and self-sacrifice of those who were prepared to give all for a cause. Politicians start wars; heroes fight them. And when they come home they have to fight not only the politicians for their due, but fight that damned war over and over again in mind and body.
Every day is Memorial Day sometimes...
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