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This year Memorial Day is on May 30, 2007, with the observance being on May 28, 2007.

As a proud veteran of the United States Air Force/ California Air National Guard, I wanted to remind all of my Blog readers that this upcoming weekend is Memorial Day weekend.

Memorial Day, which was originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those that have died in our nation’s service.

Some may think of Memorial Day as just another 3 day holiday weekend. This is not the case. Many men and women have given their lives so that this nation that we love can be free.

Even as I sit here typing this article; our nation is presently at war in Afghanistan, and Iraq. Proud young men and women of our nation’s bosom, are fighting, dying, and suffering wounds for their nation, and for you and your children.

Whether you are for, or against the wars we are now presently engaged in is not at issue this Memorial Day. What is at issue this Memorial Day is that we as a nation, and a people, support those who serve our nation, and sometimes give their lives, so that we may be free.

Only god knows the actual numbers of men and women who have died for our nation and our freedom. Our nation has fought conflicts from the war of Independence; The War of 1812; The Mexican-American War; The Civil War; The Spanish American War; World War I; World War II; The Korean War; The War in Vietnam; The Cold War; The Gulf War; The War against Terrorism, as well as many regional battles and conflicts.

When I drive by the Veterans Cemetery in West Los Angeles, I say a prayer for the brave souls that are buried there. There are many Veterans Cemeteries all over the nation and on foreign lands. The markers at these cemeteries represent the best that our nation had to give; men and women who gave it their all.

I ask each and every one of you to give thanks this Memorial Day, to those proud men and women who have paid the ultimate sacrifice by giving their lives for this nation, and so that we can be free.

I ask that you explain to your children what Memorial Day is, and that it is not just another 3 day weekend away from school.

This Memorial Day I would ask that you honor those who have died for our nation by remembering them, even through you may not know any of them. Our freedom comes from their sacrifice.

God Bless the United States of America.

By Norman Gregory Fernandez, Esq., © 2007