A Better Place...
It is Veterans Day today. This is a day to honor and thank all veterans past and present for their service to our country.
Today I stopped at the Veterans Memorial in Darlington. It’s a beautiful monument to the area’s veterans, names etched in dark granite listed in no particular order under the name of the war each veteran fought in. I took a few minutes to locate the names of family members, Allan’s brother Lee, my brother Frank, my grandfather Renzo Flannery, my uncles Donald Flannery and Frank Sauer ( and you thought there was only one Frank) and others.
As I searched for those names, I saw other names that meant something to me, many that I was familiar with but didn’t have a personal connection to and many whom I did not know.
I have no idea how many names are etched into that Memorial but what I do know is that every single person listed gave us so much to be thankful for, our freedom to be who we are (good or bad) in a country that is a great place to live. Do we have problems? Of course we do but just as our forefathers did, we all need to work together to move past our problems.
I believe that the best way to honor and thank our veterans, is for each and every one of us to do our part to make the country our veterans fought for a better place to live…k
November 11, 2015