Take time this weekend to 'Honor your dead, honor yourself'

"Honor your dead, and you honor yourself", it has been said. Not a bad piece of advice to keep in mind on this long Memorial Day weekend when the nation traditionally pays tribute to those who have fallen in service of their country.

Lord knows we have enough of them to remember. According to government records, more than 1.14 million Americans have died on military duty from the Revolutionary War through the current war in Iraq. For many of them, 'uncommon valor was a common virtue,' as Adm. Chester Nimitz said of Marines who died in huge numbers wresting control of Iwo Jima from the Japanese during World War II."{Click the link above to continue reading}