Memorial Day

First, go read the article and look at the picture, then come back. It is worth it.

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47507

http://www.blackfive.net/.a/6a00d8341bfadb53ef01156fa97022970c-pi

The picture is a card Gen. Pace left at the Vietnam Memorial on his last day as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Quoting from the article:


The lesson for Pace was immediate. “Regardless what you do in your life, hold on to your moral compass,” he said. “When you are emotionally least capable of defending yourself is when the biggest challenge will come. If you don’t have an idea of what you will let yourself do and what you will not let yourself do, you may find that you have done something that you would never believe yourself capable of doing.”

He said his epiphany came in combat, but it doesn’t have to. “I learned that day, to think through what was going to be happening each day thereafter, and to think through what I would allow myself to do and not do,” he said.

It could come in a meeting, a test, a temptation, whatever. “If you have thought through who you want to be at the end of each day, you will see that person,” he said. “But, if you have not, you may not like the person you end up being.”



This Memorial Day, remember the reason for the 3-day weekend and thank someone who risked everything to defend you, your nation and your freedom. Or, better yet, thank the family of someone who gave everything to defend you, your nation and your freedom.

Aloha.