Selfless Service

Col Wayne Steele has served in the US Marine Corps for 41 years.

Home of the Brave

A Memorial Day article from the Wall Street Journal, 2007:

America's Honor

Once we knew who and what to honor on Memorial Day: those who had given all their tomorrows, as was said of the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy, for our todays. But in a world saturated with selfhood, where every death is by definition a death in vain, the notion of sacrifice today provokes puzzlement more often than admiration. We support the troops, of course, but we also believe that war, being hell, can easily touch them with an evil no cause for engagement can wash away. And in any case we are more comfortable supporting them as victims than as warriors.

Why We Serve

This is a late Memorial Day post but worthy nonetheless. The letter was submitted to a local Patch for Memorial Day, by the author's great-niece.

France, Jan. 5, 1945