Memorial Day Weekend

“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”

― Erma Bombeck

Memorial Day Weekend is when the Northeast United States finish its planting in the garden. Seeds are sown, little seedings are planted and what is small now throughout the summer and into Labor day becomes a family farm in backyards.

It is above all else a day to honor our fallen soldiers. Young men, very young died so we could be free. We remember the ultimate sacrifice they paid. As I go with my family to the Memorial Day Parade this year I give thanks for being anAmerican and for those who died so I could be free.

God bless America!