MEMORIAL DAY 2023

CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY MAY 29, 2023

    I WAS RECENTLY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND DROVE BY ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY WHERE SOME OF OUR WAR DEAD ARE BURIED. THE POPULATION SEEMS TO HAVE GROWN SINCE I LAST PASSED BY IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA. THAT’S WHAT WARS AND CONFLICTS DO – POPULATE CEMETERIES.

    WE’VE FOUGHT MANY WARS – FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR THAT ESTABLISHED AMERICA, TO THE HORRIBLE CIVIL WAR, THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, WORLD WARS ONE AND TWO, THE KOREAN CONFLICT, VIETNAM, IRAQ, AND AFGHANISTAN. THERE WILL LIKELY BE OTHERS. AS SCRIPTURE REMINDS US: THERE WILL BE WARS AND RUMORS OR WARS UNTIL JESUS RETURNS TO BRING PEACE.

    FREEDOM COSTS. IT IS NOT THE NATURAL STATE OF HUMANKIND BECAUSE WE ARE SINNERS AND SINNERS SIN IN MANY WAYS, INCLUDING MAKING WAR AND KILLING EACH OTHER. WHAT FOR? FOR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND GEOGRAPHICAL REASONS. IN SOME WAYS IT MAKES NO SENSE. IN OTHER WAYS IT MAKES EVERY SENSE, OR WE WOULD NOT BE FREE FROM THOSE WHO WISH TO DESTROY FREEDOM.

    IF YOU DON’T LIVE NEAR WASHINGTON I HOPE WHEN YOU COME YOU TAKE THE TIME TO VISIT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY. THERE LIE THE PEOPLE WHO PAID THE PRICE SO YOU MIGHT BE FREE. AND THEN THERE IS JESUS, WHO ISN’T THERE, BUT WHO PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE FOR OUR ULTIMATE FREEDOM. I’M CAL THOMAS.