In a letter to a war widow during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln wrote “I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.”
On this Memorial Day, let us remember all of those loved and lost. They may not be members of our own families, but they are in fact brave individuals we most look up to. They are our true heroes. It is their sacrifice that we celebrate today … their willingness to lay down their lives for all of us. Many … too many … died young, with hopes and dreams unfulfilled. In wars past and present, they paid the ultimate price. And through their valor and faith, we live in peace today, secure in our freedom.
How alike they are to Jesus. These men and women died to protect our lives here on earth … Jesus died to protect our eternal lives with the Father. There is only one way to repay their sacrifice, that high price … preserve and honor their memory. We do that today, for the love of our Veterans … and I pray we do it every day, for the love of Jesus.
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