Deuteronomy 6:5-9

"You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Memorial Day

The day we honor any man or woman who died during active military service. Thanks doesn't seem enough. You often seem to be forgotten. 


American Revolutionary War
1775-1783
25,000
War of 1812
1812-1815
~20,000
Mexican-American War
1846-1848
13,283
Civil War
1861-1865
~625,000
Spanish-America War
1898
2,446
World War 1
1917-1918
116,516






World War 2
1941-1945
405,399                         
Korean War                                   1950-1953          36,516
  Vietnam War                                1955-1975           58,209
Afghanistan (ongoing)
2001-
2,145(11/2012)
Iraq
2003-2011
4,486

















Because of your sacrifice we have freedom! We live in a great country, because of your selfless acts. You have painted a beautiful picture of what Christ did for us, "While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8) Again, I think we forget or we don't fully understand what our lives would be like without the fight. Without you I might not be able to:
  • Vote
  • Teach my children at home
  • Worship the one and only True Living God.
  • Work outside the home
  • Obtain a great education
  • Have anything I want at my fingertips
  • Own a gun
  • Own our house
  • Defend myself in court
  • Adopt
  • Have medical options
  • The freedom to say whatever I want, and you get the freedom to disagree.
Thank you times a million. On this Memorial Day I will teach my children, I will pray, and I will praise God for our military, our government, our freedoms, and my family!

1 comment:

In Everything said...

The numbers are eye opening! Thanks for this reminder.