Monday, May 26, 2014, was Memorial Day. The day we in the United States of America set aside to honor and remember those women and men who have served or died in the service of our country. I enlisted in the United States Army in August of 1960. Why did I volunteer? That is the question. I volunteered because I firmly believed that I owed my country and the women and men who had served before me. I was repaying a debt that I had occurred because of what these women and men had done to secure my freedoms. Our Constitution would just be beautiful words written on paper if it had not been won by the blood of the generations of Americans before me. I was no hero, I performed do extraordinary acts of valor. I was a radar operator in an air defense battery. So do not thank me for my service, instead thank those who served and are serving today for the peace you enjoy, for all the freedoms we have in this great country, for you have these freedoms and peace because women and men have served in our armed forces and have bled and suffered to secure them and continue to bleed and suffer today. So, I ask one thing, when the picnics, parades and ceremonies are over remember and say a prayer for those individuals who have served and are serving our country today.
Dear Lord, please keep those who serve in our armed forces in Your loving arms, watch over them and their families. Amen
At the Last Supper Jesus gave us the gift of the Holy Eucharist.
