To our fallen heroes,

You gave your lives for America and everything she stands for, everything for which she was created.  You gave your lives so that we can live free, so that we can say what we want, worship God in whatever church we choose, keep and own whatever firearms we want, go wherever we want, pursue whatever life we want.

And for that, I say thank you.  I can never be grateful or thankful enough for giving your all.  I can only hope I will heed the words of what Major General John A. Logan issued in 1868:

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, or ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.

May you not now, or ever in the future, be forgotten for your sacrifice, for me and for everyone else who can call themselves American.