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Year-round values
The nation celebrated Memorial Day on Monday, the 120th time we have remembered and paid homage to the citizens of our country who lost their lives defending our liberties.
It’s an important holiday, and one which is rightly commemorated with patriotic observances, graveside memorial services and solemn parades.
But when the parades and services are ended, the reason for the holiday should remain vivid — not just on Memorial Day but for every day as well.
Rev. Jennings Hobson III paid tribute to our nation’s war dead during a service at St. Paul’s cemetery in Woodville. He said that it is important for us to honor them, not just for their sacrifice but because of what it means to us.
“It reminds us of the values which made our country great,” Rev. Hobson said. “And if we lose sight of those values we lose our own vitality, the strengths which make our country great.”
The honor, he added, is not just their right, it is our need. It keeps us strong.
Rev. Hobson spoke important words, especially as we see President Reagan in Moscow, negotiating with the Soviet leaders over, literally, the future of the world.
They are words, and values, which are worth remembering as another Memorial Day slips away, and the flags are folded and stored until next May. The importance, as Rev. Hobson noted, is that the values stand proudly, and are not folded away on the shelf until next Memorial Day.
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