Monday, May 28, 2018

Ronald Reagan on Memorial Day


President Ronald Reagan's Memorial Day message (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.


3 comments:

Sam L. said...

The man could speak to us. Lefties hated him. A better recommendation could not be had.

Anonymous said...

Sam L,

If you read Bret Baier's book, "Three Days In Moscow" it is amazing how much the things that swirled around Reagan at the time now happens to Trump and by the same players. Compare and contrast how little has changed. Trump can speak to a significantly large part of the nation and the left hates him.

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