Remember and Honor Those Who Made This Country Safe And Free

OBA Staff • May 26, 2025

Remember to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom

Remember to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice

Even if someone does not agree with everything the country does, we should honor those who died for your right to dissent about it in public. Those who gave us the power to right a wrong. Those who fought for our freedom and that of our family. Please take a minute to remember the origination of MEMORIAL DAY by reading this short decree.


Just over 156 years ago, General John Logan was watching a nation heal from another conflict. He made a decree about the fallen soldiers and stated:


"We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.


If other eyes grow dull, other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us.


Let us, then, at the time appointed gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with the choicest flowers of spring-time; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from dishonor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nation's gratitude, the soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan."


Memorial Day was created to "Remember & Honor" those who lost their lives so that we may have the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to keep and bear arms, the freedom of assembly and the freedom to petition. Maybe most importantly, the freedom to pursue “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”


We Honor and Remember all of those fallen soldiers today and keep their families in our prayers.


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