Today is a day for sucking on popsicles and running through sprinklers. It is a day for gathering together with friends and family and eating good food, usually off the BBQ. But today is also supposed to be about remembering all of the men and women who have given their lives for the cause of freedom.
Hold these people in your thoughts today … whether you consider yourself a dove or a hawk, whether you’ve served in the military yourself or just love someone who has, whether you’ve lost a loved one, know one of the fallen, or have been untouched by that grief.
In memory of all of those who have lost their lives in combat, as Memorial Day typically honors, or lost their lives working toward peace today I share the following quotes:
“Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave” – Muhammad
“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.” – Thucydides
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” – Arthur Ashe
“Heroism is latent in every human soul – However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials – privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life” – Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
and perhaps my favorite:
“We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.” – Albert Einstein
Blessings
Mama Kelly
