This Memorial Day Weekend

This Memorial Day Weekend
Current mood: grateful
Category: Life


This Memorial Day Weekend is reserved for pause and reflection, appreciation and objection, for a chance to rearrange objectives and to remember those who have dedicated themselves to the future.

For me that doesn't only include the heroes of our Military but also Family members, friends, everyday Americans.

It's a positive day, one that reaffirms there is more beyond this if we only try. A day of love, rather than sadness.

This Memorial Day I want to give thanks to my Mom and Dad who gave everything for us for what they had. Our lives together were a sweet balance of our parents living their American Dream, their "American lives" and keeping us together and safe.

Often times I was ungrateful and rebellious and now that I'm older, I would thank my parents for giving me opportunities to live outside the norm, for the added values in my life which consisted of experiences over material possessions, meeting people over just passing them by, knowing what the TRUE meanings in life are all about! All priceless endeavors!

And this Memorial Day I want to thank the everyday Americans who struggle, who do little special things to improve someone's life out there and ask nothing in return. Those who work 30+ years at the same job doing the same thing everyday in exchange for expertise in their field before worthless "corporate schooling" came along (now everyone is "expert"). Thank you for having a strong work ethic and helping to build the Country.

And thank you to Rush Limbaugh and his staff for bringing things to our attention that we otherwise never would have known. Michael Savage, Matt Drudge and all the rest who stand up for the U.S.A.


Most of all, thank you to the people who have died, suffered, done without for this Nation of people and their futures. Thank you for sacrificing yourself for the sake of people you don't even know. Thank you for being brave, for negotiating yourself for the plight of others.

From the beginning of Man, people have fought for what they believed in and the ones who collaborate, stand strong as part of the team, those who defend the survival of all of us - Thank You!

Take this Memorial Day to ask yourself - is there someone in your life with whom you disagree and have you shut that person out?

Don't make the same regrets I did as a young person - reach out to them and appreciate the time you have with them now. Someday that person will be gone. Someday you will be gone.

Memorial Day is about memories we have and the memories we WILL have.

My Dad's last words to me:

"Maybe we can meet up somewhere else some time."


Indeed Dad.



Love to all of you good people and thank you for all that you do!

XOXOXOXO

~Samantha