I got a link to this video slideshow via Mensa Barbie. According to the comments at the video hosting site, a lot of people liked it. I didn't. The music sounded like a rejected "Survivor" theme, and there were too many pictures of live soldiers.

Today isn't about the living. That's Veteran's Day.

Today is about the ones who didn't come home.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I won't waste my breath saying "thank you" to the unhearing dead.

But I will say "thank you" to those who lost loved ones in America's wars.

It's not easy loving someone who's deployed. Trying to keep a family together, trying to keep your spirits up, and always, ALWAYS the fear and uncertainty.

And for some, the crushing pain - the worst possible loss.

And then the coping. The moving on. The living again. Somehow finding a way to be happy and enjoying a life of freedom in the greatest nation in the world.

Which is why they fought.

The best way to honor the memory of the dead and the sacrifices of the living is to do something you enjoy.

So go.

Do.

Enjoy.

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