We Live - Memorial Day Tribute

"These died."

SOME THINGS only experience teaches you, and some things are only learned by those left behind. To be those left behind makes this Memorial Day.

But what have we learned? That all life is valuable, that sins are forgivable, that death leaves men behind. The one captured by death knows it. The one forgiven death knows it greater. The one who holds a loved one taken by death struggles with it.

Their struggle should be ours. As a person, as a country, as a nation which stands because death captured men. And those sins we can’t shake loose of are best held in God’s hands, else what captured them becomes ours.

Do we see the stains on the soil, the holes in the heart, or the victories obtained? Is it one or the other or both blended? Blended and stained so that those which didn’t die can live. So that brown can become green because red fell.

Such is our memorial. These died. We live to honor them.

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" (Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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