A text for Memorial Day, from Ronald Reagan, via Maggie’s Farm:
Once
each May, amid the quiet hills and rolling lanes and breeze-brushed trees of
Arlington National Cemetery, far above the majestic Potomac and the monuments
and memorials of our Nation's Capital just beyond, the graves of America's
military dead are decorated with the beautiful flag that in life these brave
souls followed and loved. This scene is repeated across our land and around the
world, wherever our defenders rest. Let us hold it our sacred duty and our
inestimable privilege on this day to decorate these graves ourselves -- with a
fervent prayer and a pledge of true allegiance to the cause of liberty, peace,
and country for which America's own have ever served and sacrificed. ... Our
pledge and our prayer this day are those of free men and free women who know
that all we hold dear must constantly be built up, fostered, revered and
guarded vigilantly from those in every age who seek its destruction. We know,
as have our Nation's defenders down through the years, that there can never be
peace without its essential elements of liberty, justice and independence.
Those true and only building blocks of peace were the lone and lasting cause
and hope and prayer that lighted the way of those whom we honor and remember
this Memorial Day. To keep faith with our hallowed dead, let us be sure, and
very sure, today and every day of our lives, that we keep their cause, their
hope, their prayer, forever our country's own.
R. I. P.
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