Your Peace Still Remains!

Happy Memorial Day!

The memories of those who paid the most upon the sacrificial altar of freedom bear witness to love, preserving a lifestyle for those of us who may not be worthy to benefit from their honor.

The cost of a nation's preservation is revealed in the bravery and resilience of her population's dexterity to seize the moment and harness opportunities while celebrating the greatness of things yet to become manifest to the naked eye, or the conceptualized of a mortal's psyche.

The best is yet to come. There is always a hurt, frustration, and question dangling to become resolved. Sometimes the answers are not ours to know, explain, investigate, or understand.

The horror and madness of asking "Why?"

The researched revealing, "There never was a 'Definitive why?'"

Life reveals the blessings of each new day.

He or she who is willing to overlook history with compass coordinates obtained through knowledge, intellect, healthy memory, strategical foresight, and wisdom reveal repercussion's action plans offering the best chances or alternatives for a better tomorrow and prosperous long term future.

Friends remain by the compassion of oversight.

Healing is obtained by the activities sustaining the peaceful.

Immortality obtained by influences upon the variable reveal significantly more than the calculated sum of all expenses.

Gone, but never forgotten is the hero who looked hell in the eye and when asked "Whom shall we send?" replied "Send me."

By Thomas Collins Jr,. E-4, USMC 1994-1998, For Memorial Day, Written, May 28th, 2018

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