Patriotism

“Tell them, tell them when you get home that I gave all of my tomorrows so they could have today!” Those are the words on a tombstone, far across the Pacific, of someone who gave up his life for our future in the battle of Iwo Jima. Were those words uttered so that those of us who are left could just enjoy our lives without "getting involved", or were they written to remind us that …showed first 75 words of 1118 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1118 total…remember what Abraham Lincoln said: "That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain," and what President John F. Kennedy said in his famous inauguration speech - "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." And last of all remember that gravestone far across the Pacific which states: "Tell them I gave all my tomorrows so they could have today!"