Yesterday during our morning coffee I ran across this article on Facebook .... what a delightfully informative and patriotic article it was to enjoy on Independence Day. IN my previous post I shared how saddened I am that so much wonderful history is in danger of being lost forever, because so little has been done to preserve it or even our schools arent teaching it...This author, Patrick O'Donnell and others like him are inspired to dig deeply.. pour through diaries and letters to relate little known stories of the lives of heroes of our past. I was also taken by a news broadcast yesterday of the thousands of opportunites that are lost to know the outstanding sacrifice so many have made to secure our freedom simply because we werent interested enough to sit down and ask our fathers, grandfathers, and friends about their service to our nation...especially those who served during wartime..it is sad to me that society basically waited to pay tribute to WWII veterans until many had already succumbed to their maker in their old age..
We see feeble attempts to pay homage to them in the past few years but the veterans are almost too elderly to be able to attend events or more importantly share their stories.
Now our Vietnam vets who I remember returned home from their service to a lackluster welcome due to political dissent... many who suffered terrific loss and hardship... and many whom today feel unappreciated for what they sacrificed. I pray that the current upsurgence of patriotism will inspire society to demonstrate interest in these veterans...I stand with our current president in honoring the cost of their service and that our nation will continue to make caring for our veterans, physically, emotionally and financially as a means of demonstrating a true appreciation for the cost of liberty.
