Gilbert Gutknecht: “As we prepare to celebrate Memorial Day, I would ask that we pause and reflect on what some have called our greatest…”

“As we prepare to celebrate Memorial Day, I would ask that we pause and reflect on what some have called our greatest generation. Over 16 million Americans answered the call, and now we are losing over 1,000 World War II vets every day. We owe all our vets. Perhaps one of the greatest tributes was offered by President Ronald Reagan when he went to Normandy to observe the 50th Anniversary of that amazing invasion. He said, "Those men of Normandy were men of great faith. They had faith that they fought for all humanity. They had faith that they fought for a just cause. They had faith in a loving God that would grant them His tender mercy on this beachhead, or the next. They somehow knew that word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. That in Georgia, they were filling the churches at 4 a.m. That in Kansas, they were kneeling and praying on their porches. And in Philadelphia, they were ringing the Liberty Bell." To all our vets, and especially the World War II vets, let us say a special thanks to them this Memorial Day.”