Baseball will be back tonight (LATE) for the Knuckleballs but in honor of the holiday, we ask you to put that aside for a moment.
For all those who have served in our nation’s military, we thank you. For all those families who have sacrificed, we thank you. But in the true recognition of Memorial Day and it’s history, we remember those who fell in the service of this country and we honor their memory.
There is no way to pay the debt owed for the privileges I enjoy. I can only recognize the depth of loss and remember the cost.
We encourage all our readers to enjoy their Memorial Day in whatever manner they choose but to take a moment during the day to remember those we’ve lost.
… The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion …
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Day is done,
gone the sun,
From the hills,
from the lake,
From the skies.
All is well,
safely rest,
God is nigh.