Sacrifice

Today we honor the men and women who protected our nation by serving in the military. Many never returned from battle, others returned with injuries that may never heal. Our country was founded by war. We survived a war to rip our nation in half and rallied to defeat fascism in WWII. The idea of a nation founded to escape tyranny has led to a diverse group of citizens bound together by the promise of freedom and the protection of law. It is our legal system that enables this experiment of democracy to sustain. The demise of other great nations was usually proceeded by the breakdown in the legal system. Often, despots suspended the rule of law to enable them to seize power. The founding fathers created three co-equal branches of government to protect the citizenry from tyranny. Our Constitution enumerates certain rights to citizens. Their overriding goal was to insure that no one person would be able to seize control like the monarch they broke from. Today, beware of the false profits that point to the judiciary and the constraints of law as an enemy of the people. The men and women who gave of themselves so that this nation shall endure as a nation of laws are owed more than empty rhetoric. They deserve a nation based on the application of law, due process and equal protection of the law for all citizens. Our soldiers fought to preserve these bedrock principles. We need to remember their sacrifices and honor them everyday by doing our part to protect our Constitution.