Contemplate and think about the soldiers and families who have sacrificed their lives

Monday, May 30, 2016

"Memorial Day is the day to set aside time and sit down with our children and teach them about our wars and war heroes," Janine Turner A Memorial Day Essay  By Constituting America Founder & Co-chair Janine Turner  On this Memorial Day weekend, I think it is appropriate to truly contemplate and think about the soldiers and families who have sacrificed their lives and loved ones, and given their time and dedication to our country. Sometimes it is beyond reach to put ourselves in someone else's shoes and feel, to the most heightened sense, what it would be like to say goodbye to our loved ones for perhaps the last time. Do we take the time to feel empathy for the soldier who has to walk away from his family - mother, father, wife, husband, daughter, son - to be potentially killed out in the field - to die away from family - in perhaps some distant land, in enemy territory, on foreign soil? How frightening this would be. It is difficult in our daily lives that are hectic with work, pressures, commitments and family responsibilities to really pause to think about the sacrifice our men and women in uniform have made and are making to protect us. Our men and women in uniform were and are the brave, the special, the few and the truly great patriots. Without these soldiers, we, America and Americans, would not be here - plain and simple. The air we breathe, the land we walk, the sky we sketch, the country we call home, is because of the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform.  Click here to read more.

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