Men and women of the military are remembered Memorial Day.
They gave.
Today, they give us their memory.
And, much more.
PFC Lucas Ventline led a full life cut short at 23 in Vietnam along with 58,000 other Americans, let alone other casualties of the other "side" who matter also.
One world requires imagination to end war as a means to settle disagreements. There are not sides, or, teams.
Either we learn to live as one, or, we will die across the globe.
A soldier's destiny rests in the hands of those who experience what Winston Churchill called, a statesman's "stress of soul."
Keeping faith forever with the fallen that favors living together in dialog beyond conflict and battle comes from this stress of soul that must be a guiding light in search of tomorrow all the days of our life with the young and the restless, for sure.
We will sing, God Bless America, and proudly so.
Perhaps, by now, it is also time to bless God, to be a blessing for God who would want us to wage war no more, I'm sure.
While I place a U.S. flag at my brother's grave today where he rests next to mom and dad in Mount Olivet Cemetary in Detroit, Michigan, I will also connect with Lucas, with the Creator,
and with the billions who breathed thier final breath of life in battles brewing everywhere, it seems these days, near and far, in families at home, in hearts far off.
Evergreen hope, I pray, will buoy a time when primitive war and nuclear weapons will be no more.
I never miss an opportunity to thank our servicemen, on the street corner, in the malls, even the students whose going into military school and anywhere in public I see them and now even! Indeed, we thank you for your service to each and every one of us! Many of us know the sacrifices. see more!
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