Memorial Day 2025

“Today, we’re not just fortunate heirs of their legacy. We have a responsibility to be the keepers of their mission—that truest memorial of their lives: the actions we take every day to ensure that our democracy endures, the very idea of America endures.” (President Biden, Memorial Day, 2024)

“The Americans who rest beneath these beautiful hills and in sacred ground across our country and around the world, they are why our nation endures. Each simple stone marker arranged in perfect military precision signifies the cost of our blessings. It is a debt we can never fully repay. But it is a debt we’ll never stop trying to fully repay, by remaining a nation worthy of their sacrifice.” (President Obama, Memorial Day 2015)

Video graciously forwarded this day by a good parishioner.