Memorial Day 2009 Is A Solemn Occasion
By Doug Patton
May 25, 2009
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I miss my father. I wish he had lived beyond the mere 76 years he was given. Hardly a day has passed in the last ten years that I have not wished that I could ask him the questions I failed to ask when I thought I had another year or another month with him, or to tell him how much I appreciate the sacrifice he and his generation made to preserve my freedom.
But when I see the President of the United States travel to Europe and refuse to go to a U.S. military cemetery in France -- even at the invitation of the French president -- I am glad my father did not live to see it. When I see my president stand before crowds of Europeans, all of whom, without the intervention of my country -- twice in one century -- would be speaking German today, I am ashamed for the honor of my father and my grandfather.
May God grant us the endurance and the fortitude to stand against the evil of this president's ideology and agenda, and the wisdom to replace him with the next true patriot who runs for that office.
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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and policy advisor to conservative candidates, elected officials and public policy organizations. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
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