Note: I first wrote this post in 2008. I’ve made it a tradition to re-post this entry every Memorial Day, which is observed in the United States on the last Monday of May. The feelings, the emotions, are just as real today as they were then. Plus it seems that everyday I am reminded that This War Goes On. In the past months, militant Islamist groups have kidnapped 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria and continue to attack civilians and other non-combatants a suicide bomber killed over 20 people, including children, at a concert in Manchester England and ISIS militants killed a busload of Christians in Egypt. groups such as Boko Haram, Daesh/Islamic State, and the Taliban continue to kill, injure, and attack churches, markets, and those who stand for good. Who will stand up? Who will make a move? Who will say that this can not go on any longer?

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We had a memorial service this week.

Seven warriors had lost their lives in service to our country, in service to you. 

The cowards we are fighting had set an ambush for our warriors.