On Memorial Day, I wanted to express my thanks and thoughts to families who have lost loved ones in service to our magnificent country. I know our family has been affected in past wars. I'll have our Scouts at our little town's Memorial Day service and march to the cemetaries and the wharf for services in memory of those members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard who have given their lives in defense of Liberty.

Maybe the common man who signed his name simply A. Lincoln said it best many years ago at Gettysburg:

"It is for us the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - 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 - that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."