To the Fallen We Pledge Remembrance

All memorial day holidays have significant meaning. But, this year's commemoration to all those throughout the history of this great nation who have lain down their lives to preserve its liberties, has special significance to me. My nineteen year old son, who is a proud member of the Mississippi National Guard, deploys to Iraq the beginning of next month. Right now he's at Camp Shelby doing his month long prep before deployment. Then he'll be home for a few days before leaving. I've taken long pause to think how proud I am of him for stepping up to what he feels is his duty and facing something courageously that has me scared to death. Funny, how I still see him as a little boy trying to imitate daddy.




Then I think of all the other fathers and sons who've waded through these same emotions in the past. God bless those men, both young and old, for the sacrifices they've made to keep us all free and safe for so long. Praise needs be heaped upon those men during the day set aside to honor our fallen soldiers. And take a moment to feel a little grateful to their fathers who held the same silent prayer in their heart that I hold for my son. Today we honor the men whose fathers only had half of that prayer answered. "Please, Lord, keep my son safe as he marches off to face our enemies. And should he fall in that foreign land please let him go bravely and with the full force of my love in his heart to ease any pain he may suffer."




And, too, we honor those brave boys. Boys who had to grow up too fast, had to face the horrors of mortal combat, and gave everything they had to give to insure that America remained the bastion of liberty it always has been.





To entirely too many Americans Memorial day represents no more than a three day weekend for family barbecuing. This Memorial day I implore all that read this to share a moment of remembrance. Pause your hectic schedule long enough to offer up a prayer for the comfort of families that sacrificed that most precious of gifts so that each of us can know freedom. Pray for the mothers, the fathers, the wives and husbands, and most of all for the children of our fallen heroes. Generation upon generation of Americans have given all so that the many can live in blissful ignorance of the evils that have always plagued mankind. They cry out to us in proud expectation on this day of national recognition of their service and sacrifice. Don't turn them a deaf ear.

A SOLDIERS PRAYER

Brave warriors,
should fate find us in battle,
May our cause be just.
May our leaders have clear vision.
May our courage not falter.
May we be triumphant and earn victory
as we show mercy to our enemies.
May our efforts bring lasting peace.
May our sacrifice be always
appreciated by those we serve.
May we return to our loved ones unharmed.
Should we be harmed, may our wounds heal.
Should we perish in the struggle,
may God embrace us and find for us
a place in His Kingdom.

Amen

Later,
Musing Lew

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