November 11, 2010

Veteran's Day

The wars in our popular consciousness have been viewed in many different emotional lights. After a season of enthusiasm, followed by a season of fashionable distaste and outrage, we seem to have arrived in either a season of denial, or else honestly perceived conclusion. Through all of these shifting national moods, our soldiers have stood strong and done all that we asked of them, and for this, we present to them our gratitude on this Veteran's Day. Your efforts have given us the peace that we have, and brought a greater measure of stability to far corners of the earth, now as decades ago, and for this we honor you on this Veteran's Day. You and your families have borne up under your trials handsomely, and for this we give you our respect on this Veteran's Day. We may never be able to know quite what you have experienced, but we hope that you and yours will be able to experience our good wishes on this Veteran's Day.