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It can be easy to get caught up in our weekend Memorial Day plans and forget WHY we are celebrating and those who gave their lives so we have this privilege. Please invest 30 seconds to remember and read this poem. Please share with your children or young adults who may have no idea. A story on\u00a0Military.com said that only 55% of Americans know why we celebrate it<\/a>. It is the day we celebrate the\u00a0fallen soldiers<\/strong>\u00a0from all the nation’s wars. Please remember.<\/span><\/p>\n Memorial Day<\/strong> Is it enough to think today<\/p>\n Of all our brave, then put away<\/p>\n The thought until a year has sped?<\/p>\n Is this full honor for our dead?<\/p>\n Is it enough to sing a song<\/p>\n And deck a grave; and all year long<\/p>\n Forget the brave who died that we<\/p>\n Might keep our great land proud and free?<\/p>\n Full service needs a greater toll-<\/p>\n That we who live give heart and soul<\/p>\n To keep the land they died to save,<\/p>\n And be ourselves, in turn, the brave!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It can be easy to get caught up in our weekend Memorial Day plans and forget WHY we are celebrating…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.getswitchedon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nby Annette Wynne<\/p>\n