Memorial Day

Posted on May 27, 2019 by mitchteemley

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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues,

but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

~C. S. Lewis

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Wishing You a Happy

and Grateful

Memorial Day!

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11 Responses to Memorial Day

  1. oneta hayes says:
    May 27, 2019 at 12:27 pm

    Thinking this through, I agree. I hope I remember. To grow in any virtue one has to reach the place of testing which will demand some courage to go further. Mitch, I’ve added nothing to what you and Lewis gave me, but I have placed it in my brain – now to my behavior….

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  2. Mr. Ramdolfi says:
    May 27, 2019 at 2:33 pm

    Great quote, Mitch! Happy Memorial Day!

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  3. Jonathan Caswell says:
    May 27, 2019 at 3:43 pm

    A lot of us have people cared about on THE WALL…Thank you for a very appropriate reminder of the fallen who are behind the names!

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  4. Jonathan Caswell says:
    May 27, 2019 at 3:44 pm

    Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
    A WALL OF REMEMBRANCE–REAL PEOPLE CHOSE TO FIGHT AND DIE…AND BE REMEMBERED WITH HONOR!

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  5. worrylessjourney says:
    May 27, 2019 at 4:24 pm

    My husband served two years in Viet Nam. He visited the Wall once and cannot go back. His class at West Point has too many people on the Wall.

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  6. gpavants says:
    May 27, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    HI Mitch,

    You, too brother.

    In Christ,

    Gary

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  7. Mellow Curmudgeon says:
    May 27, 2019 at 7:27 pm

    This post’s image evokes my own take on Memorial Day: sadness tinted with pride and gratitude.

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  8. R.H. (Rusty) Foerger says:
    May 29, 2019 at 5:58 pm

    What a great line. Also, though I am not an American, I have to say that when I visited the Vietnam memorial some 30 years ago, I was overcome with emotion in touching the names of so many people. The thing that got me was seeing my reflection in the face/names of the war dead. Thanks for your post.

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