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Memorial Day 2013

Saturday, 25 May 2013 15:00 Last Updated on Saturday, 25 May 2013 16:19 Written by Judy McCloskey

Friends,

 
Memorial Day, originally known as Decoration Day, it is a day set apart for a grateful nation to remember and honor the lives sacrificed in time of national defense and war.  
 
This weekend, visitors to Arlington’s 624 acre National Cemetery will see every grave marker appropriately ‘decorated’ with an American flag.  Other veteran cemeteries will do likewise.
 
In December 2000, National Moment of Remembrance Act,” P.L. 106-579 was passed by Congress and signed by then President George W. Bush.  The US Department of Veteran’s Affairs notes:
 
The National Moment of Remembrance encourages all Americans to pause wherever they are at 3 p.m. local time on Memorial Day for a minute of silence to remember and honor those who have died in service to the nation. As Moment of Remembrance founder Carmella LaSpada states: “It’s a way we can all help put the memorial back in Memorial Day.”
 
Three o’clock is the hour of Divine Mercy, an hour of particular grace. To juxtapose the remembrance soldiers’ ultimate sacrifice with the death of our Lord is to prayerfully unite their sacrifice to that of Christ’s. It is a channel of authentic divine blessings upon the nation, its military, its families, its leadership.
 
What to remember on Memorial Day
+Pray for those who have died in service to their country. 
+Pray for renewed strength and good courage for those who live with the memory of that loss. 
+Pray that returning veterans “honor those we have lost by living up to the ideals they died defending. (Presidential Proclaimation, Memorial Day 2013)”
 
 
Blessings to you and your extended family this Memorial Day and always,

Judy McCloskey

Obama to Award MOH to Fr Kapaun

Wednesday, 13 March 2013 09:53 Last Updated on Thursday, 14 March 2013 17:35 Written by WH Office of the Press Secretrary

On April 11, President Barack Obama will award Chaplain (Captain) Emil J. Kapaun, U.S. Army, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry.

Chaplain Kapaun will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for his extraordinary heroism while serving with the 3d Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy at Unsan , Korea and as a prisoner of war from November 1-2, 1950.

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It has aspects nobody can be proud of, such as the institution of spies. It necessarily interferes with that fundamental carelessness which is akin to kindness and is the wisest of the customs of mankind. It gives the mere scientific expert a more dangerous power than he has in any other department even of the modern world. Also it kills people.

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