A Day for Remembrance

On this day for remembering, we recall a favorite quote of Winston Churchill:

'Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few'

While Churchill was, at the time, speaking about British pilots during the Battle of Britain in 1940, the words are easily applied to other times and other places. He liked his whiskey and his cigars, but the man brought an eloquence to the English language that is fast going the way of the Dodo in our contemporary world of texts and tweets. And maybe it's his American mother that gives many of us a special link to his greatness.

Today, we rightly honor those who have served to protect our way of life, especially those who have fallen in the line of duty. But we also take this special day to remember those of our own families and communities that have gone before us and in many ways, large and small, helped pave our way into the future. It is important to celebrate those memories thereby perpetuating their influence beyond mortal constraints.