On Memorial Day we pause to remember those who gave their lives for our nation. It is also important to remember on the cause for which they died.
Millions have put on the uniform to defend our nation. Hundreds of thousands made the supreme sacrifice and paid the ultimate price.
What was the cause? Why did they leave their homes and their peaceful lives to take up arms?
Our Founding Fathers could have protected their businesses and enterprises by compromising with the King of England. That is exactly what the loyalist to the British wanted. They believed that loyalty to England was of vital importance to protecting their business and trade.
In the Declaration of Independence, you will find the cause for independence. That cause is the bedrock of America. It is a cause to remember on Memorial Day.
The Declaration listed political and economic reasons for independence. Those reasons alone, however, were not the driving force that led men to leave their families to fight for independence.
There was something greater, more noble, and timeless that led our founding fathers to declare independence. They laid claim to the “separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.”
The most famous sentence in the Declaration set forth eternal and self-evident truths.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The final sentence of the Declaration contains what I believe are the ten most important words in America’s founding documents. “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
The cause was liberty. America was a great experiment in a government that was built on a foundation of individual liberty. Today we remember those who gave their lives for a great and noble cause of liberty.
In places like Lexington and Bunker Hill young men picked up their muskets and left their farms to take a stand for freedom and liberty. Across the span of America’s history men and women have answered the call.
From the battlefields of Europe to the jungles to Southeast Asia, to the desert sands of the Middle East, and even here on American soil, Americans continue to pay the price of freedom with their own blood. In every generation, Americans rise to meet the challenge when evil raises its hideous head to strike against freedom and liberty.
On this Memorial Day we remember. We remember not only that our fellow Americans died in the service to their nation. We also remember the cause for which they died.
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