Memorial Day is a day of solemn contemplation over the cost of freedom. As patriots, to truly revere our fallen warriors, we need to preserve those ideals for which our soldiers fought and died.

The best way to honor America’s fallen war heroes is to cherish, not squander, the great inheritance they bequeathed to all current and future generations: the inheritance of Freedom and Liberty. These precious, constitutional gifts are bestowed to each of us at our birth, but only because other Americans were willing to secure them at their death.

May we never forget that the preservation of freedom is a gift from one generation to another, a gift that is continually paid forward.