The men and women who were honored Monday at the city\u2019s annual Memorial Day observance are people who knew the truth. They had been in harm\u2019s way. Those who fought to save the rest of us gave their final breaths, whether in battle or in the comfort of old age, knowing they had done the right thing \u2014 the right thing for their families, the right thing for their country.<\/p>\n
The city in which we live, the land in which we live, are better places because of Madera\u2019s veterans, who did the job they had to do. Not only did they do the right thing by taking up arms, but those who returned from the service gave us the gift of leadership and truth which they had learned through hard lessons.<\/p>\n
What can be said about them, other than to honor their greatness?<\/p>\n
Perhaps we can borrow the words of some other great military figures:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cA gallon of sweat saves a pint of blood.\u201d \u2014 Gen. George S. Patton<\/em><\/p>\n \n\u201cDo your damndest in an ostentatious manner all the time.\u201d \u2014 Gen. George S. Patton<\/em><\/p>\n \n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.\u201d \u2014 Gen. Norman S. Swartzkopf<\/em><\/p>\n \n\u201cAll you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can\u2019t do anything about it… Then you understand the horror of war.\u201d \u2014 Gen. Norman S. Swartzkopf<\/em><\/p>\n \n\u201cWars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.\u201d \u2014 Gen. Omar N. Bradley<\/em><\/p>\n \n\u201cIf a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.\u201d \u2014 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/em><\/p>\n \n\u201cLeadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.\u201d \u2014 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/em><\/p>\n \n\u201cThe spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope.\u201d \u2014 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/em><\/p>\n \n\u201cThe smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade (at a liberated Nazi death camp). More than 3,200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. … Eisenhower\u2019s face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us.\u201d \u2014 Gen. Omar N. Bradley<\/em><\/p>\n \n\u201cAmerica today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.\u201d \u2014 Gen. Omar N. Bradley<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The men and women who were honored Monday at the city\u2019s annual Memorial Day observance are people who knew the truth. They had been in harm\u2019s way. Those who fought to save the rest of us gave their final breaths, whether in battle or in the comfort of old age, knowing they had done the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[32,33,39,45],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-culture","tag-death","tag-government","tag-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}