[Salvation]

Our soldiers, police officers, and first responders are deserving of our honor, for they put their lives on the line so that others can live, be more free, and experience abundance. None of us can fail to appreciate the burdensome weight that some carry so that we can live well, freely, and comfortably. Freedom is not free; it is costly.

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[notaliberal]

The golfer in chief pretending he cares at the “Laying of the Wreath”

[Old Sarge]

“Mansions of the Lord” never fails...

[Grateful2God]

**Last September his family asked me if I would offer the old Latin Requiem Mass for him, since that was the only form of the Mass he had ever known. **

My Dad fought in the Army in the Korean War. I never knew until after he died that her been on the front lines. One story he did tell was about a Korean priest who brought a corporal (not the military kind: a corporal is a specially blessed cloth. Relics sewn within make it appropriate for Mass to be celebrated in situations such as this; the relics serve as the altar stone would.) and celebrated Mass on the hood of a Jeep. My Dad spoke a little Korean; the priest a little English- but Mass was in Latin. Everyone there was able to hear Mass that day. My father could never tell that story without crying. He had a great love of the Latin, and said it was painful to hear It in English for the first time. He never lost his perspective, though. Never missed, even when he was crippled and using a walker.

God bless that priest. God bless all those whom we remember today, and those who continue to fight. I pray to God that, one day, our Armed Forces will have a Commander in Chief who is worthy of their allegiance, and a nation that truly appreciates their sacrifices and those of their loved ones.

[Grateful2God]

**Private First Class Arthur Richardson went north during the Korean War; he did not return to us. But he carried well the great weight of being a solider. He also carried the weight of collective human sinfulness (which is what brings war) and felt its burden keenly; he gave his life.**

So beautifully said.

Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.