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“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”

–Barack Obama’s Memorial Day Speech

Apparently if this whole President thing doesn’t work out, he’s going to audition for work as a medium.

UNDER the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you ‘grave for me:
Here he lies where he long’d to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

Remember today, in the midst of the BBQs and shopping and visiting with friends and family, to honor all of those that did not come back.

While I will never physically walk on Mars, I hope that someday those that are distantly related to me will have the opportunity so that I will, in a sense, be able to be there.

When men first walked on the moon when I was a child, I had hoped that when I grew up, moon travel would be as routine as flying to Australia.