Today we remember and honor those who gave their lives in service of our country. Is it fitting and proper that we do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But ours is a young country, our conflicts are recent, and the memories fresh in our collective conscious.<\/p>\n
Proud and brave young lives have been sacrificed through out human history.<\/p>\n
Imagine the Greek King Pyrrhus of Epirus surveying the blood soaked battlefield of Asculum in 279 BC. Pyrrhus deployed 40,000 calvary and infantry and 20 war elephants. The Romans under Publius Decius Mus deployed 40,000 calvary and infantry and 300 anti-elephant devices.<\/p>\n
After a two day battle, the Greeks were victorious. The Romans lost 6,000 men; Pyrrhus, 3,500, including many of his officers. Pyrrhus looked on the devastation and stated “One more victory like this, and we shall be utterly undone.”<\/p>\n
This Memorial Day, while I pause to honor the sacrifice of our country’s great heroes, and express my deep gratitude, I will think, too, of sacrifices made throughout history, even back to antiquity, sacrifices that formed civilization as we know it today. And I will say a tiny prayer that somehow, someday, humans will indeed find a way to put an end to war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today we remember and honor those who gave their lives in service of our country. Is it fitting and proper that we do so.\u00a0 But ours is a young country, our conflicts are recent, and the memories fresh in our collective conscious. Proud and brave young lives have been sacrificed through out human history. 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