Today is Memorial Day, when we take time to remember all the brave men and women who have given their lives to protect America and keep us all free. Most people think of the soldiers that fought in Korea or in the Gulf war, or the soldiers in Iraq today. But we tend to forget that without the soldiers all the way from the revolutionary war these brave warriors of today would never have had their chance to keep America free! What if the minute men had not gone to Lexington or Concord? Or what if Abraham Lincoln had just decided to let the south break away from the Union? Or what if Washington had surrendered to Cornwall because Valley Forge was just too hard? I am not saying that what the soldiers of our generation and our parents generation have done is not worth honoring, but that we cannot forget the soldiers from America's past either. And what if the Americans had not decided to fight the Kaiser? They were not fighting a war for America, they were fighting for freedom for another country. What of Marines who fall in other countries, sent by the UN to help that particular country? Are they less deserving of our thoughts today? I have a hard time thinking that memorial day is just for the American soldiers who fought for America.Memorial day is a day to honor American soldiers . All of her soldiers.
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