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How do dreams become reality? How did such qualities as freedom, individualism, justice and opportunity advance from conception to completion? What was the catalyst here?

The answer to these questions is also the reason we celebrate Memorial Day each year. These dreams did not become reality without the sacrifice of thousands of lives in battle for well over two hundred years. We live in freedom today, thanks to the heroes who gave up their fledgling futures for us. They gave us a personal definition of patriotism.

Though thee courageous men and women were afforded little goodness in battle...there was one item many Insisted upon keeping dose to their heart That was the Bible, the comfort of God's Holy Word that saved souls even when life could not be preserved. Perhaps the poet, Rudyard Kipling, echoed the sentiments of those dying heroes in these stirring words from the conclusion of his patriotic poem, •'The Choice”,

'‘Then praise the Lord mu High

Whose strength hath sand us whole,

Who hade as choose that the Flesh should die

And not the Using Soul!”

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