Remember

During his weekly radio address Saturday, President Obama said something that is 100 percent accurate and completely devoid of partisanship.

“The debt we owe our fallen heroes is one we can never truly repay.”

While discussing Memorial Day, the president also said, “It’s a day we remember those who never made it home, those who never had the chance to take off the uniform and be honored as a veteran.”

He added, “(The idea for Memorial Day came from) ordinary citizens who acknowledged that while we can’t build monuments to every heroic act of every warrior we lost in battle, we can keep their memories alive by taking one day out of the year to decorate the places where they’re buried.”

A few of the thousands of men and women who lost their lives defending our freedoms and interests on foreign lands are buried in Thomas County. We encourage you to help local veterans decorate their graves with American flags.

You can assist at the following sites and times:

• Presbyterian Church Cemetery, 9:30 a.m., Sunday

• Boston City Cemetery in Boston, 10:30 a.m., Sunday

• Magnolia Cemetery in Thomasville, 2 p.m., Sunday

• Sunset Memorial Gardens in Thomasville, 4 p.m., Sunday

• Laurel Hill Cemetery in Thomasville, 7:30 a.m., Monday

• Peaceful Rest Cemetery in Thomasville, 7:30 a.m., Monday

In addition, please consider attending the Thomas County Memorial Day ceremony at Sunset Memorial Gardens at the Veterans Memorial on U.S. 84 East at 11 a.m. Monday.

It is critical that we not forget the sacrifices of the fallen. As poet Thomas Campbell said, “The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.”

In closing, we share the words of Gen. George S. Patton.

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”