Memorial Day

 Don't forget to raise Old Glory at dawn and thank God for the brave men and women who gave everything so that we might be here today.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George S. Patton said that, he was a tough SOB and expected the same from his troops.

This concept has taken hold in America, many now call a funeral, a "celebration of life".

I don't know where it started, perhaps in New Orleans, maybe farther back. 

It always struck a chord with me, after all, funerals are for the living, not the dead. Why should we be so self-absorbed to wallow in our own anguish because we no longer have their company here on Earth?........... Heaven needs soldiers too.