Remembering their solemn sacrifice
Joseph L. Galloway in Detroit Free Press:
It is a time to remember all who have fallen in battle serving our country in an unbroken line from Concord's bridge to Little Round Top to San Juan Hill to Chateau Thierry to the cliffs at Pont-du-Hoc to Pork Chop Hill to the Ia Drang Valley to the latest Marine battles along the Syrian border in Iraq.Millions have died for the idea of freedom, for the dream of democracy, and on this Memorial Day we remember them and honor them with parades and speeches and the mournful sound of taps blown by a sweet bugle on a green hillside.