Welcome to a Special Memorial Day Edition of The Recovering Politician

If you’re at home catching up on work, or at the pool catching some rays, I encourage you to check in via your desktop or PDA every so often to The Recovering Politician.  We are here to put the “Memorial” back into Memorial Day.

Too often, the special message of this important American holiday gets lost in the three-day-weekend vacations, department store sales, and swimming pool openings.  This is the one day every year where it is incumbent on all of us to remember the brave men and women who served our country in uniform.

Because they remembered us.  As the Scripture instructs, the greatest love is shown by those who sacrifice their own lives for the benefit of their neighbors.

On Friday, I invited our readers to join our contributing RPs in offering tributes to special people in their lives who served our country.  And the overwhelming response was truly heartwarming.

Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT, and every half hour that follows, we will share a new tribute from one of our readers or our regular contributors.  You’ll hear from the sons and daughters, grandchildren, and siblings of true American heroes.  You’ll hear from veterans themselves, including my own hero who was a decorated World War II fighter-pilot.  You’ll even hear from a sitting mayor who took time out of his extraordinary busy schedule to salute his own mother and father. 

If you never had a chance to submit your tribute, please take the opportunity in the comments section below each post.  Feel free to honor a beloved friend or family member, or perhaps an unknown, unheralded man and woman who lost his or her lives to preserve our freedoms.

Thanks for sharing this Memorial Day with us.  I hope you enjoy it.