It is Memorial Day weekend. Time to crack out the BBQ, open the pool, hang out with friends in the back yard. All these things are part of what make this a great holiday, but what makes this an AWESOME holiday is that we can celebrate the ones who put their lives on the line so that we can have the freedom to have this weekend. Do me a favor, before you go out on the boat or pull out the lawn chair, find someone who sacrificed time for you and thank them. Right now, while you are enjoying a beautiful start to summer, there is a soldier somewhere in this World attempting to gain entry into a dilapidated shack in to eradicate an insurgent who wants nothing else but to destroy our way of life, uncertain of what he/she might find on the other side of the door. Remember, it is not just the brave soldier who sacrificed, it was his/her family that kept the home front for them while they were away.
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about their religion;
respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
Show respect to all people and grovel to none.
When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools
and robs the spirit of its vision.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled
with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep
and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
-Chief Tecumseh
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