memorial day

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May.Formerly known as Decoration Day, which was first recorded to have been observed by Freedmen (freed enslaved southern blacks) in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865, at the Washington Race Course, to remember the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War. Today, what is now known as Memorial Day, is a day of reflection and recognition of ordinary people who sometimes visit cemeteries and graves to honor their deceased relatives while also commemorating all U.S. Service Members who died while in military service.

In Australia we call it A.N.Z.A.C. day

But no matter where you live

Or where you’re from

Whether you have any loved ones, family or friends in the military

Days like Memorial Day should always be respected, observed and honored

We get to do what ever we want in our day to day lives

Because somewhere, someone else is putting their lives at risk, to make sure are lives are exactly what they are

Ful of choices, freedoms and all the things that all of us at some point, will take for granted

So many people who choose to make the military their world

Don’t ever get the choices and freedoms we get

Many, don’t ever get to come home at all

On days like today, there could never be enough words to truly convey how grateful we should be to all the men and women who risk everything, so that we can have everything

We can start with thank you

So today, and every day

THANK YOU