On this Memorial Day, we come together as a nation to honor and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan designated this day as a day of prayer for permanent peace, urging the press, radio, television, and all other information media to join in this observance. He encouraged us to unite in prayer, beginning at eleven o'clock in the morning in each locality.
President Reagan reminded us that "Our pledge and our prayer this day are those of free men and free women who know that all we hold dear must constantly be built up, fostered, revered, and guarded vigilantly from those in every age who seek its destruction. We know, as have our Nation's defenders down through the years, that there can never be peace without its essential elements of liberty, justice, and independence."
"Those true and only building blocks of peace were the lone and lasting cause and hope and prayer that lighted the way of those whom we honor and remember this Memorial Day."
"To keep faith with our hallowed dead, let us be sure, and very sure, today and every day of our lives, that we keep their cause, their hope, their prayer, forever our country's own."
As we gather today, let us pledge ourselves as living sacrifices that honor those who paid the greatest price for our freedom. "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." We are deeply grateful for those who sacrificed all and for the family and friends who have lost loved ones. Our debt is to you all.
This Memorial Day, let us pledge to honor them with our lives and lift up our nation in prayer for peace, liberty, justice, and independence. May we always remember and cherish the freedoms we enjoy because of their selfless acts.
God bless you, and God bless America!
Brigitte Gabriel
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