Memorial Day

Today is being observed as Memorial Day, a day designated to commemorate the men and women who died while in the military service.

We lift up to the Lord the souls of each of these men and women. We also thank Him, and them, for their sacrifice.

Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
                  – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

YouTube: Memorial Day 2019 - Freedom Isn't Free

Community in Mission: A Memorial Day Meditation on Honor (24 MAY 20)

Paul Greenberg: Remembering, We Forget (30 MAY 11)

Community in Mission: On the "Memorare" of Memorial Day (27 MAY 18)

Dominicana: Memory (27 MAY 19)

Aleteia: Philip Kosloski: Catholic prayer for Memorial Day (31 MAY 21)

Community in Mission: America, I Gave My Best to You - A Reflection on the Virtue of Patriotism (26 MAY 19)

John McCrae: "In Flanders Fields"

YouTube: Memorial Day

YouTube: National Memorial Day Concert 2021 | PBS

Presidential Proclamation:

Presidential Proclamation:Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 2021

Related media reports:

USA Today: Memorial Day: Remembering the Civil War's United States Colored Troops (31 MAY 20)

The Boston Globe: 76 years later, a World War II veteran pays tribute to the man who saved his life (29 MAY 21)