IN RETROSPECT--

Memorial Day slid into history that recent, warm and sunny day and I was proud to be among the thousands of county citizens who paused to salute the horrific sacrifice of our nation's war dead.

We remembered that day, 25,000 colonial warriors died in our revolution; the war that earned our freedom.

We remembered 623,026 brothers and sisters died in our Civil War; where the nation tried to tear itself asunder.

We remembered our country later fought two World Wars whose dreadful and combined death toll exceeded one half million fighting men and women.

Just think of losing a father or brother or daughter or son in war, mostly on foreign soil, yet sometimes in hostilities of questionable merit.

We remembered that has happened to our families more than 12 million times in our mere 235 year history.

We remembered it is still happening.

May God grant peace to our warrior's souls.

And, may God grant us the wisdom to never forget.