Memorial Day

Memorial Day is such an important day in the year of our county. It's a day of honoring those who have given their lives for our freedom. We Americans take this amazing country of ours for granted. Our way of life is unlike anything in the world, yet because most of us have never known anything else, we just live it and rarely give it much thought.

My husband is a naturalized citizen. Though he is from Canada, a wonderful country too, he still considers it an honor to be an American and is a way better citizen than I have ever been. He would never miss a chance to vote and is always ready with a flag to proudly display, for any national event such as this one honoring our military dead.

As a born and raised Americans, I hope that you all will join me on Monday with a prayer of thanks to God for all who have fought and given their lives so that our country and others can remain free.

Join me also in a daily awareness that our freedoms are a wonderful gift from God and that anything that keeps others "imprisoned" or made to feel less than the human beings that they are, should be and will be squashed. We as a people must continue to fight for freedom on a day to day basis for all people everywhere.

Let this be so always.

Mary