This Memorial Day

Today America faces many tough challenges. But as in the past, we have the ability to meet and overcome these challenges with the full ingenuity and creativity of a free people. We have that ability, that freedom of choice only because of the selfless and courageous sacrifices of our fellow Americans who have donned the uniforms of our armed forces. Throughout this nation’s great history, from Bunker Hill to Bien Hoa, from Chancellorsville to Tora Bora, brave men and women have gone into battle on our behalf and given their lives to purchase and secure for us that most precious gift, freedom. This Memorial Day and every day, let us remember that, we remain the land of the free, only because of the many sacrifices of the brave. And let us further honor their sacrifices by remaining vigilant and strong, so that the promise of America may long endure. “Let us now praise famous men . . . All these were honored in their generation, and were the glory of their times. Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”