Today is Memorial Day. For most it is a day of rest and relaxation. A day of cookouts, BBQs, parades, or maybe a trip to the beach.
The real reason for Memorial Day is often forgotten. It is a day to give thanks to all those who gave so much to Our Country. So that we can be free to do as we please. Many other countries don't have the Freedom that we have and so often take for granted. But Freedom is NOT Free. It comes with a very high price andI don't mean dollars and cents.
The other day while standing in line at the grocery store there was a young guy with only one arm. We got talking because I was wearing a T-shirt of the Norwich Fire Dept that my good buddy, Capt Stuie Carter gave me. The guy said to me that he would have liked to have gotten on the fire dept but couldn't because he had lost his arm. Of course I asked him what happened and he told me he lost it in Iraq.
HOW DO YOU THANK SOMEBODY LIKE THAT ? He lost his arm for us. I guess he thought I was some kind of hero because I told him I was a retired firefighter. Wow, I wonder if he knows who the Real Hero is. He lost his entire left arm. Talk about a hero.....
He lost his arm. Others lost a leg, some were burned. And others didn't make it to come home.
I am NOT a Vetern. In my generation it was the Viet Nam War. I was lucky and didn't have to go. But I lost a friend who I went to school with. Another friend came back not quite the same. He wasn't the same great, funny guy, I once knew. He came back using drugs and alcohol and I just don't know what happened to him after that.
I worked with many Viet Nam Vets. One of my best friends and Excellent firefighter was Ray Benoit. Ray only talked to a few guys about his Viet Nam days. He told me how he was shot in the leg in the femoral artery and came close to dying. He said one of the guys saved his life by stopping the bleeding.
How do you Thank someone like that. And what about all the other Wars. Korea, WWI, WWII, and todays Afganstain. All we can do is Honor Them.
So remember what today is really all about. Its to honor those like I talked about here. Many Never came home to tell their story. We will just never know the sacrafices and the suffering they have given so we can be free.
Thanksgiving Day is a day that we are thankful for what we have.
Memorial Day is a day that we give thanks to the people, for what we have.
THANK YOU to ALL the Veterens of the Unted States of America.
The real reason for Memorial Day is often forgotten. It is a day to give thanks to all those who gave so much to Our Country. So that we can be free to do as we please. Many other countries don't have the Freedom that we have and so often take for granted. But Freedom is NOT Free. It comes with a very high price andI don't mean dollars and cents.
The other day while standing in line at the grocery store there was a young guy with only one arm. We got talking because I was wearing a T-shirt of the Norwich Fire Dept that my good buddy, Capt Stuie Carter gave me. The guy said to me that he would have liked to have gotten on the fire dept but couldn't because he had lost his arm. Of course I asked him what happened and he told me he lost it in Iraq.
HOW DO YOU THANK SOMEBODY LIKE THAT ? He lost his arm for us. I guess he thought I was some kind of hero because I told him I was a retired firefighter. Wow, I wonder if he knows who the Real Hero is. He lost his entire left arm. Talk about a hero.....
He lost his arm. Others lost a leg, some were burned. And others didn't make it to come home.
I am NOT a Vetern. In my generation it was the Viet Nam War. I was lucky and didn't have to go. But I lost a friend who I went to school with. Another friend came back not quite the same. He wasn't the same great, funny guy, I once knew. He came back using drugs and alcohol and I just don't know what happened to him after that.
I worked with many Viet Nam Vets. One of my best friends and Excellent firefighter was Ray Benoit. Ray only talked to a few guys about his Viet Nam days. He told me how he was shot in the leg in the femoral artery and came close to dying. He said one of the guys saved his life by stopping the bleeding.
How do you Thank someone like that. And what about all the other Wars. Korea, WWI, WWII, and todays Afganstain. All we can do is Honor Them.
So remember what today is really all about. Its to honor those like I talked about here. Many Never came home to tell their story. We will just never know the sacrafices and the suffering they have given so we can be free.
Thanksgiving Day is a day that we are thankful for what we have.
Memorial Day is a day that we give thanks to the people, for what we have.
THANK YOU to ALL the Veterens of the Unted States of America.
