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All Americans are encouraged to pause at 3:00 p.m. local time on Memorial Day for a minute of silence to remember and honor the men and women who have died serving our country.  The National Moment of Remembrance began in 2000 to ensure that the focus of this national holiday remains on the heroes who inspired its creation and on all of the heroes since who have continued to inspire a nation.

I am grateful for the men and women who serve this country and defend the liberty that so many strive to duplicate from the few who would destroy it.  The willingness of these soldiers to sacrifice their future for something bigger than any individual is not just humbling, it’s overwhelming.  The bravery, the sense of purpose and the selflessness of the more than two million soldiers who have died in service to our country, honors our history and safeguards our future.

On this most solemn of American holidays I want to share with you a short speech that I wrote in 2003 for a Memorial Day service in La Crosse while I served as chairman of the La Crosse County Republican Party.  I haven't found a better way to convey my feelings about this holiday so please forgive me for simply copying and pasting from an old speech.

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice: So help me God.”

I recently saw one of those poke-fun-at-your-age birthday cards that said, "As you get older, you don't worry so much about where you're going in life....(open the card to see a picture of a toilet)....You just hope you can hold it till you get there!"
 
After yesterday's thwarted terror attack on Northwest 253, the words I quoted seem to have lost their humor and become a sincere wish to avoid one of the consequences of Christmas Day 2009 terror attempt.
 

Send a hard copy of Greeting Card to our deployed troops through your computer. Go to http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1280.html, select a card from the choices, add a composed message or add your own, hit "send". Xerox will print the card and deliver it to a serviceman or woman in Iraq. It is a great and very easy way to express your gratitude to those who keep us safe.

I just submitted the following response to questions about my Christian beliefs in an online debate and I thought you might be interested.

Well it didn't take long for the fallout of Obama's new, weak foreign policy to reveal itself.  Now every thug dictator and anti-American leader in the world knows the president is weak in the knees and this is just the beginning of them walking all over us.

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice: So help me God.”