As a citizen of the freest, greatest country in history, I express my gratitude for those who throughout our history, have paid the last full measure so that we, collectively, could enjoy the fruits of liberty.
Thank you also to the many men and women--among them, some of my friends--who even now defend the freedoms I hold so dear. May we, collectively, never take our liberty, or those who defend it, for granted.
Congressman Sam Johnson, Air Force vet, on what you can do (broken link) to support the troops this Memorial Day.
Via Ace, a great video of our last WWI vet. Watch & learn.
Army vet & Yale alumnus Flagg K. Youngblood (my kind of name) has a great article up at the Young America's Foundation website (also broken link) about military service. From that piece, a few interesting stats:
At last count, the Department of Veterans Affairs found 41,891,368 Americans have served in uniform during times of war since 1775.
651,030 Americans have died in battle to protect liberty at home and abroad, and an additional 539,079 Americans have died in the line of military duty.
3,447 of the United States’ bravest have been awarded the Medal of Honor, our nation’s highest tribute to military valor, since Congress authorized the decoration in 1861, per the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
At The Corner, Pete Hegseth quotes John Stuart Mill:
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.
Remember Jason Dunham, American, Marine, Medal of Honor recipient.
There is something worse than war; there are things more important than life.
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