Tag Archives: Memorial Day

“Freedom isn’t free”.  Not sure who coined that saying but it has resonated with me for some time.  Those of us fortunate enough to live in the world’s democracies know that our freedoms come with a high price, and a debt of gratitude to the men and women in our military who make them possible.

The world has thousands of war monuments and in no place are these monuments more varied than in Washington D.C.  My favorite war memorial in D.C. is the Vietnam Memorial, beautiful in its simplicity, with over 50,000 names inscribed on its smooth polished granite surfaces.  Each name has a life’s story and someone’s grief associated with it, and every time you visit this monument …

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