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Jim's Quote of the Day:
"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." - President Ronald Wilson
Reagan
