Memorial Day

Today, Creator God, we remember. We remember the courage of our forefathers who decided they could no longer bow to England's crown, so they went to war to gain our country's independence. We remember the agony and blood-letting of that war that pitted American against American, the north against the south. Even to this day the wounds of that fighting are yet to be healed. We remember that many years ago we sent our troops to "fight the Kaiser" in a war that was to end all wars. Then less than three decades later we returned to Europe to fight the same enemy. This time we were much more jaded about our prospects for peace. We remember fighting in the east in the '40s, in the'50s, in the '60s, and the '70s. And recently we brought home the men and women who fought there in the…