A Memorial Day Challenge to Remember and Recommit from President Reagan 1982

This podcast is excerpted from a speech given in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan at Memorial Day Ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. It is brief, but poignant and profound and very "Reaganesque". This national holiday is set aside to commemorate and remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms, but it should also cause us to reflect upon what is worth dying for and fighting for and how we might live worthy of the sacrifices made for us. It should also cause us to be grateful for, and to, the men and women presently serving our nation, who have not volunteered to die, as President Reagan reminds us, but volunteered to defend values which people have always been willing to die if need be. Thank you to the fallen, and to those who stand today in defense of freedom.