As we are all sidelined in one way or another, waiting for a resolution to an invisible war with a microscopic enemy, it is all too easy to forget about those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for liberty and freedom. From the war for independence, brothers fighting brothers in a conflict that was anything but civil, to seemingly needless death and destruction in the First World War to the massive stand against evil and world domination in WWII, millions have lost their lives in defense of our way of life. On Memorial Day 2020, let us honor them by preserving individual freedoms and ensuring that their gift to those who remain is not forgotten.

• Memorial Day 2019 – Sacrifice
• Memorial Day 2018: Remembering The Missing And The Fallen
• Remembering The Fallen On Memorial Day

Gettysburg Address – Abraham Lincoln

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that 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.