IF EVER PROOF WERE NEEDED THAT WE FOUGHT FOR A CAUSE AND NOT FOR CONQUEST, IT COULD BE FOUND IN THESE CEMETERIES. HERE WAS OUR ONLY CONQUEST: ALL WE ASKED … WAS ENOUGH … SOIL IN WHICH TO BURY OUR GALLANT DEAD.
General Mark W. Clark
Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1969-1984
YouTube link to video: https://youtu.be/KoRyxBdy804
This video is a stunning reminder that the freedoms we enjoy today were paid for by others—a lot of others. May we cherish, hold fast, and fight for those freedoms—so their sacrifices be not in vain.
On the journey toward Home,
