{"id":209,"date":"2009-06-10T12:47:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T09:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2024-05-03T19:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T23:44:24","slug":"and-they-will-not-die-in-vain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/and-they-will-not-die-in-vain\/","title":{"rendered":"And they will not die in vain…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Remember\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I cant tell you how many times I have heard this statement “they will not die in vain”, especially on important dates such as memorial day.\u00a0 Recently we celebrated memorial day and I hope that we as a country are really taking pause to think about what this date really means.\u00a0 Personally, amongst all the other days that we find ourselves not having to go to work and sleep in, this is the most important day of all of them.<\/p>\n

I will be honest and say that for a long time I did not REALLY give this day enough thought, as much as it deserves anyways.\u00a0 As a kid it was a “non school” day.\u00a0 Then as I got older it became a “non work” day.\u00a0 And for that I’m ashamed.\u00a0 I dont know why it took so long before it really sunk in on what memorial day is all about.<\/p>\n

Its about young men and woman with a lifetime of goals anddreams in front of them cut short by enemy fire because they put themselves in a dangerous position to defend our country.\u00a0 To carry out our presidents orders whether they agreed with it or not.\u00a0 And for the most part they dont complain because out of respect for their leaders.<\/p>\n

I’m worried.\u00a0 I’m worried that this country is losing some of the old school God and Country beliefs.\u00a0 I’m hearing too much whining to have more of this, and less of that.\u00a0 Gay rights, same sex marriage, less taxes,\u00a0 leaglize marjuana, rights for illegal immigrant, brutal murders, insane nutbags going on killing spree’s, anything to do with G.\u00a0O. D.\u00a0 needs to be erased, removed, or displaced.<\/p>\n

When I was in the military I was in harms way.\u00a0 I can remember how proud I was to be in a elite force, a rapid deployment force in the 82nd Airborne.\u00a0 I really believed that if I died for my country I would not be forgotten.<\/p>\n

I saw this photo above and wow, it says it all.\u00a0 Please really take a minute out of your day and reflect.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe visit Arlington.\u00a0 Talk to your kid about war.\u00a0 Talk to your Grandfather about war.\u00a0 Just do something other than throwing on some chicken on the grill and drinking beer.<\/p>\n

Once in a while I see marines out and about.\u00a0 Young strong marines that already did a tour in Iraq or Afganisthan or maybe going back soon.\u00a0 Do something for them.\u00a0 Say thank\u00a0 you, or pick up their tab or something.\u00a0 Let them know we care.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I write this as the risk of being accused of being pompous, but thats a risk I’m willing to take.\u00a0\u00a0 The world does has not had alot of nice things to say about us lately but they still want to live here instead of where they are.\u00a0 Were still the best place on the planet to be because of our freedom here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The freedom that men and woman are dying for us to keep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I cant tell you how many times I have heard this statement “they will not die in vain”, especially on important dates such as memorial day.\u00a0 Recently we celebrated memorial day and I hope that we as a country are really taking pause to think about what this date really means.\u00a0 Personally, amongst all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}