After The Flag Is Folded

After the flag is folded, the living fall into each others arms. , After the flag is folded, we have the responsibility to keep alive the memory of those who fought and died for the freedom, liberty, peace and prosperity that we all enjoy today in America. , After the flag is folded, we have the responsibility to the dead soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines who sacrificed life that we might have this liberty and freedom. , After the flag is folded, you and I carry a deep and significant responsibility to the dead. It is our obligation to keep alive the great hopes of the American people as they are embodied in the principles outlined in our Deceleration of Independence our nations Constitution and our Bill of Rights. , After the flag is folded, our fallen comrades have laid a solemn burden in our hands. We must make sure that death never stalks the ideas for which American men and women in uniform have shed their blood and sacrificed breath of life. , After the flag is folded, we can honor the dead more by helping those who have served and came home sick and wounded. , After the flag is folded, I believe the dead would not want the American people to focus only on the dark days of past wars, but on the hopeful prospects of tomorrow. I believe they would want to use this day to recommit ourselves to the standards for which they died. , After the flag is folded, we have the responsibility to the living, to those that came home with missing hands, arms, feet, legs, loss of eyesight or hearing, snd the many other severe disabilities that will go on to the grave with them. We have those who came home without a scratch on them on their bodies but with ? their minds that cant be the way memories of buddies and friends that paid the supreme sacrifice for the idea - that idea of our self is freedom for liberty. , Once the flag is folded for our departed comrades, we are left with an obligation to the living. It is my firm belief that our nations war dead expect nothing less from us than our full commitment to that cause. , "Let us forever honor the dead by bringing new hope to the living" , God bless America and it's veterans , Author Jacob A. "Jake Stradford,