We have holidays to celebrate and marks days of celebration or days of meaning. Stores close. Families and friends do things with the time away from their usual work day routines.

We stand or sit along the curb to watch parades of the floats and bands. Sometimes the people in the parade don’t even know the event behind the long line in which they’re participating.

The holiday today in our United States is to remember the soldiers who fought under our flag. They gave their lives for us — even those of us who are still living. Every soldier gives the time of his or her life to do what he or she is doing. Some never recover from that sacrifice — their service.

Last night, Mark Goulston wrote, I don’t think honoring those who gave so much so we can be free — the soldiers, veterans, police, firefighters and their families — is enough; we need to repay them for their sacrifice.

One way to do that is to share VETERANS’ AID AND ATTENDANCE SPECIAL PENSION — which allows for for Veterans and surviving spouses who require the regular attendance of another person to assist in eating, bathing, dressing, undressing or taking care of the needs of nature to receive additional monetary benefits. It also includes individuals who are blind or a patient in a nursing home because of mental or physical incapacity. Assisted care in an assisted living facility also qualifies. … VeteranAid.org

Another way is to thank the veterans you meet for their service.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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