Thanks to everyone for sharing these beautiful, poignant thoughts today.
Originally Posted by ScoutGal
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Originally Posted by Mellow Julia
"Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run; Obama ran so our children can fly."
Originally Posted by Kathy
All of life is so temporary. All we really have is today.
Originally Posted by Opinionated Alien
Today it is about remembering the dead, not the political.
Originally Posted by kap17
I won't go as far as saying that they died protecting our freedoms . . .
And to add to the litany:
Originally Posted by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!’ he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
Someone had blunder’d:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Steve
Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,
to respect and be kind to one another,
so that we may grow with peace in mind.
(Native American prayer)