Remember...

It's important on this Memorial Day to remember not only the men and women who died to protect our Freedom and Liberty but also for what they sacrificed their futures, lives and sacred honor.  They died for an Idea, a grand experiment in freedom and diversity, openness and opportunity and a civil society based on the novel approach of Self Government.
In breaking the millenia-long tradition of imperial rule by kings and monarchs in which a class of privileged few ruled largely uneducated masses of subjects destined for meager existences in poverty and obscurity, the Founders of the United States of America introduced the concept of individual rights and citizen service, or government of the people, by the people and for the people.  The idea that man can govern himself and in doing so achieve a wealth of freedoms and successes beyond the wildest dreams of mere serfs, slaves, servants and subjects.  In the United States of America, the people are Citizens. 
In the process individuals are freed to go their own way and fulfill their own destinies.
As a result of the sacrifices of the men and women of all races, countries and origins who won our freedom from tyranny to lay the Foundation of this Nation, to the soldiers serving presently in Iraq and Afghanistan to help bring freedom to others, we are at liberty to worship freely, speak freely, travel freely, and dream freely.
Remember them, and remember US.