Memorial Day 2008

I visited this memorial in Normandy when I was in France with my high school.  Many years later "Saving Private Ryan" came out and the movie started in this cemetery.  I wish I had seen the movie first because I would have appreciated my visit a lot more.

And the veterans of that war are now almost extinct, most of them dying of old age.  We will soon be without any living knowledge of that war.  And I hope without living knowledge we aren't dooming ourselves to repeat things.  I just don't see us as being smart enough to learn from our mistakes.  One quick look at the state of the world and I think anyone would agree with me.

So I am taking this brief time to remember and thank everyone who fought and died for our country.  And I hope that everyone will take politics out of their remembrance.  Those men and women did not fight for politics.  They did not fight for politicians.  They fought for this country.  They died for this country.  The ideas and love they fought for are much bigger than the politics of the land.  Its a shame we have politicians to ruin everything.

But, thank you soldiers for your sacrifice.  May we all honor your lives and your memories by not mucking things up here in the USA...