Memorial Day weekend is a favorite for many Americans – it means the start of summer, the pool opening and cookouts in the backyard. However, it also has a more significant meaning.

It is an opportunity to remember and honor those who paid the ultimate price for our freedoms. But remembrance doesn’t mean just sadness, it also means thankfulness - as General Patton once said, “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

So take some time today with your friends and families and remember the men and women who paved the way to our freedom.