Some have given all and all have given some. 

It is a brotherhood – a bond forged in fire, tested in blood, and defined not by ones love for self, but ones love for others. Someone once said, “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” While the author of this quote is widely speculated, we can all agree on the truth that it carries.

Since the birth of our nation America has stood tall. We have been defined by our good men and women willing to stand up and confront evil. Be it at home or abroad, the American Warrior has never backed down from a fight. On this 25th day of May, 2015, we pay tribute to the good men and women of this country; the American Warrior’s who sacrificed everything so that their blood might water the tree of liberty.

In truth there are no words that commemorate their service or pay homage to the sacrifices that they made. To capture the beauty of their sacrifices we must take ourselves to a place well removed from our daily problems and worries.

As time passes by and memories fade, their legacies are reflected within our actions. It is through our actions that we honor and memorialize their sacrifices. It is a cruel world that leaves us here to pursue life, liberty, and happiness at their expense, but it is a beautiful life to die in service of the Red, White and Blue.

On this Memorial Day we aren’t remembering the living, we are honoring the dead.

In quite possibly the greatest example of sacrifice Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” John 15:13.

Many people will never experience a life that demands that kind of love, but many who have gone before us have given us that love. A lot of Americans will never fully understand the essence of Memorial Day, and while we are all bound by the Red, White and Blue, for some of us that bond runs much deeper then an address, a citizenship, or our heritage.

In military service we are not bound by where we are from nor even where we are going. We are bound by the simple fact that we have sworn to protect and defend a common idea, the unalienable right that all men are created equal.

For some of us Liberty demands a greater price. We can’t pick and choose, we are merely left to the whims of fate and the needs of Freedom.

This Memorial Day it is time that we do something different. The time has come that we rise and rise again, for their blood was not shed in vain. In moments of danger, they volunteered. In times of hardship they said, “we will not quit.” And in times of sacrifice they said, “here is my life God, take me now.” We do not demand their sacrifice, we do not demand their service. But they give it anyways, for that is the nature of the American Warrior.

Never has the world seen a fighter so selfless as the American. Never has a Warrior walked this earth as humbly nor as confidently as those from the U.S. of A.

Today, on this 25th day of May, in the year of our Lord 2015, we remember where they have gone and what they have done. We pledge that we will live our lives in accordance with the very idea that they died in order to preserve. On this day, we memorialize the ultimate sacrifice that they made.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”