Memorial Day: The Privilege of Honoring Our Fallen Military Heroes

Memorial Day is the federal holiday that commemorates American men and women who died in military service to our country. It is with a tremendous sense of pride that I salute those military who paid the ultimate price in service to our country.

I am proud and honored to have grown up in a family and country at a time when men, women, and children understood that service to country was a patriotic duty.

The Daily Rant salutes and honors those of our military who sacrificed their lives in service to America. The Daily Rant also acknowledges the families of those fallen military heroes.

Memorial Day is not about drinking, cooking out, a weekend sale, or a weekend at the shore. It is about those committed to service and the price they paid in carrying out same.

Brave men and women paid in blood for the freedoms we have.  Their families surrendered their loved ones for a better America. But today, groups like the ACLU would strip every remembrance of what these fallen heroes have accomplished from public view, because a cross or Bible verse commemorates their sacrifice.

Military men and women gave their lives to make America the greatest English-speaking country in the history of civilization – yet contemptible Gollum’s like the Democrat party, dare to call legislation that mandates English as the official language of the United States of America, racist. One might ask these haters of America what the official language of Mexico is?

I am both glad and proud to have grown up honoring our fallen heroes by playing clarinet in our school marching band from grade school to graduation from high school graduation every Memorial Day.  I am a better citizen today, for having grown up during a period of time when youth groups placed flags on the graves of military members.

This Memorial Day, as we honor our fallen military heroes, let those of us who were born and raised during the days and time that America and our way of life was honored and revered, share of that past with the children and youth of today, lest that time be forgotten and trodden under the feet of those working to exchange same for men in dresses and women claiming to be men.