Lest We Forget
by Moonwolf on Dec.08, 2009, under Patriot Guard Riders, Veterans
This coming Saturday morning, December 12th, several thousand people won’t be home in the warm, cuddled up in their beds all comfy and toasty.
Instead, they’ll have made their way early that morning to Arlington National Cemetery, as well as other locations spread out across the United States, Iraq, and other foreign locations.
This will see the final phase of the annual Wreaths Across America project to completion for the 18th year.
The trucks, carrying over 150,000 donated wreaths, are in transit as I write this entry, escorted by the Patriot Guard Riders, and many others – organizations and individuals.
On December 12th, those thousands of volunteers will get out of their warm beds, leave their warm homes, and descend upon the resting places of fallen heroes, both old and new, to pay their respects and honor those whose stood, and fell, defending us.
It isn’t a celebration of war.
It isn’t a judgment on the right or wrongs of the various conflicts many of those heroes fell during.
It’s simply a way to honor those heroes for serving.
A way to remember them.
A way to say “Thank you”.
On behalf of a grateful nation.
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. ~ Winston Churchill
