MEMORIAL DAY: Remembering Our Fallen Heroes in Nashville, Tennessee

NASHVILLE, TAKE A MOMENT TO REMEMBER OUR FALLEN HEROES--OUR FREDOM IS BORNE OF THEIR BLOOD.  This Day of Memorial is about those who DIED in defense of our Liberty.  As many businesses have "Memorial Day Sales" and promote saying thank you to those of us veterans yet alive: hear us--TODAY IS NOT ABOUT THE ONES OF US WHO ARE HOME FROM WAR--it is ABOUT THOSE NEVER TO RETURN!!! 

This is not a National Holiday to commerate the opening of the local parks and swimming pools; but to take pause of the price of Fredom.  Total US Casualties from the Revolutionary War to the current action in Afghanastan approximates  1,343,812 souls.

To hear the current press reporting on casualties in Iraq, Afghanastan and Pakistan: one would assume the body counts are at all time highs.  Truth is: this is a lower body count than any of the ten other major US conflicts. (The War on Terror is now the longest military conflict involving US troops--the Revolutionary War was 8 years.)  Every soul is precious, and that is WHY we should pause in memorial.

War on Terror 5,796 [less than 10% of the casualties suffered in Vietnam].

Vietnam 58,209     Korea 53,686     WWII 405,399     WWI 116,516

Philippine-America War 4,196     Spanish-American War 2,446

Civil War @ 625,000  [The highest number of casualties were inflicted as Americans fought Americans]  Whether they wore blue, or grey, they were mostly poor young men caught in a conflict they did not start.  All fought for their homeland, for their beliefs, and maintained  honor, showed courage, and shed that precious blood.  Mothers grieved their loss, and families were never the same. 

Confederate Cemetery on the grounds of the Hermitage [President Andrew Jackson's Home].

                                                                                                                                                                                                 Mexican-American War 13,283     War of 1812 @ 20,000     Revolutionary War @ 25,000

To all who have sacrificed a loved one for Fredom's call: THANK YOU!

The figures used in this post came from "United States military casualties of war" from  Wikipedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war#cite_note-71   The photos are mine.