Is there any greater valor than giving your life for the idea of a country? That is why, on this Memorial Day, you honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

So that we may have a cookout and watermelon in our idea of freedom, people have given their lives. Not you, not I, but those who we honor today.

P.S. Don’t forget to thank the Boy Scouts for leaving a flag at the grave sites of the lost heroes.