Dr. John H. Braccio talks with Dave Akerly of WILS on the “Morning Wake-Up With Dave Akerly” Radio Show, on 5/30/17 on WILS, 1320 a.m. in Lansing, Michigan. Dr.Braccio agrees with Retired Four-Star General Jack Keane: ONLY THE GREAT RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS karatay bayan arkadaş ARE MORE SOLEMN THAN MEMORIAL DAY. The right to say what we want and not worry about ending up in a Stalin-like gulag is because hundreds of thousands of our young citizen soldiers have been willing to sacrifice their lives and futures over the years so we can have liberty. That too many do not realize this or think about it does not minimize what they have done for us and does not diminish the celebration we have as we honor them for their great sacrifice. Abraham Lincoln said it best in his Gettsburg address in 1863:
…from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
General George Patton said it in his own unique way: “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived”.