What's in it for them?
Denis Kaufman, SCPO, USN, (Ret)
Senior Chief Petty Officer Denis Kaufman | The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA)
On this Memorial Day, as in previous years, I will think of Edward Ball and others in my family who perished serving our country: a great-uncle killed in France in 1918, a second cousin killed on Saipan in 1944, and friends and shipmates lost in Vietnam. They deserve to be remembered. We owe it to them, our “honored dead,” to preserve the nation for which they died. Our service members died for their comrades, for their families, and for their country so that its government and the ideals for which it stands can long endure.