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Remember all those who gave everything for our freedom today. #MemorialDay2019
Ronald Reagan at Arlington National Cemetery on #MemorialDay in 1985: “It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country, in defense of us, in wars far away. The... 1/3
Ronald Reagan at Arlington National Cemetery on #MemorialDay in 1985: “It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country, in defense of us, in wars far away. The... 1/3
imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray haired. But most of them were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives – the one they were living…and the one... 2/3
they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for our country…for us. And all we can do is remember.”
