Memorial Day!

Today our nation pauses to remember those who have given their lives for our freedom!
Memorial Day should be much more than a holiday of leisure and pleasure, but a time to remember those who suffered and died to ensure our political and religious freedoms!  May we not forget the great sacrifices of those who fought to make our nation the land of the free.
Today, let us pause to remember and thank God for those who died for our country!

Perhaps sometime today, as you enjoy your family gatherings, you would like to pause a few moments and lift your voices in singing together this verse of "America the Beautiful."

     "O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife,
          Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!
      America!!   America!!   May God thy gold refine--
           Till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine!"

--Amen!