We Say We Will Never Forget But Have We Already Forgotten?

As grandparents, we are the last Americans left who have memories of family members who went to war to protect our world and instilled in us the understanding of the importance of a population who honours that which so many before us were willingly to fight and died to safeguard.

During the months and months of arguing over individuals refusing to stand for the National Anthem, not a single journalist or op-ed writer discussed the meaning of its lyrics.

After a night of heavy bombardment, from British ships during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812, 35-year-old Francis Scott Key awoke to see our flag, the symbol of freedom, flying triumphantly over Fort McHenry and was inspired to write the proud and grateful words of “The Star-Spangled Banner”

Over the generations, many millions of people, on other mornings in other cities—across Belgium, Holland, France, the camps of Nazi Germany, and so many other places far from our shores—have awakened to the hope and joy of seeing that flag borne by young soldiers willing to risk their lives to defend the freedom it stands for.

Now those freedoms are in peril. We seem to be more interested in tearing apart this country than protecting it.

Can’t we, as grandparents, help our grandchildren understand that though as a people we are not perfect, and neither is our system, there is great value in what those young people died to protect? That respecting the views of others, listening to what they have to say, and finding compromise is the only way to honor it?

If we cannot come together in agreement that there is something worth defending at the heart of America, then we will fall. And if we fall, the world will fall.

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We Say We Will Never Forget But Have We Already Forgotten?

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