Rosy Glow – Memorial Day 2021

By

Andrew DeMarco

As we get ready to celebrate Memorial Day, we all know it is a day in which we honor all the men and women who have given their lives for this great country. This year I realized that all of them are a part of our history whether they are known to us or not. From the American Revolution to the Afghan War, these brave individuals gave their lives in anonymity known only to their family and friends. This got me thinking about our present cancel culture / revisionist history movements.

Today these revisionists look to remove the names of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and others from our history, men who established the principles of this great country. While our Founders, Signers and Framers were far from perfect, the same can probably be said of many of those who died defending the principles which our Founders established.  Should we do the same for these brave individuals and remove them from our history? Should we paint over the more than 58,000 names on the Vietnam Memorial or cover the 1,177 names of the men lost on the Arizona which over 900 of them are still entombed on that ship? Or do we take it a step further and topple every headstone of those who gave their lives and lie in Arlington and other National Cemeteries around the country as well as the Normandy American Cemetery just to appease those who don’t understand what this country is all about? I think not!

This Memorial Day we should look to President Lincoln’s final few sentences of the most famous 271 words ever delivered:

–that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

It is said that this Nation is the “Home of the Free because of the Brave.” I believe it is time that we the Free, step up and become the Brave and make sure that our heroes have not died in vain. With a new devotion, we all should pledge ourselves to a new birth of Freedom and make sure to educate everyone as to why this country shall not and will not perish from the earth. If we do this it will give us all that feeling that Cousin Bob would call that…..Rosy Glow!