This Monday, America will be celebrating Memorial Day. Like many holidays that fall on a Monday, we all too often talk happily about a three day weekend without actually acknowledging the reason for it.
On Monday, amid the barbecues, potato salad and parades, I encourage you to recognize the day as it was intended to be recognized - honoring our fallen heroes that gave the ultimate sacrifice. Let's take this one step further - I not only encourage you, I challenge you, and those that you will be celebrating with, to dedicate your Memorial Day to a specific fallen hero. Visit USFallen.org and find a hero to honor. Say their name out loud, think of their surviving family and talk about them with your friends and family.
Whether you agree with their mission or not, it's important to remember that these fallen heroes, and those currently serving in our Armed Forces, are someone's son or daughter, wife or husband, brother or sister, and they deserve to be acknowledged.
Personally, I will be paying homage on Monday to Staff Sgt. James R. Patton, 23, of Fort Benning, Ga., 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Ga. To whom will you pay tribute? I challenge you!
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