SACRIFICE FOR OUR FREEDOMS. THE NAMES OF TWO U.S. SERVICE MEMBERS WHO DIED SERVING OUR COUNTRY WERE ADDED TO THE PATRIOT맥스카지노�S PEACE MEMORIAL. ADDIE MEINERS WAS THERE AS FAMILY MEMBERS GOT TO HONOR THEIR LOVED ONES SACRIFICE. IT WASN맥스카지노�T LONG AGO HERE AT THE PATRIOTS PEACE MEMORIAL ON RIVER ROAD, THAT FLOOD WATER ROSE UP TO THE TOP STEP OF THIS MEMORIAL. BUT THAT DIDN맥스카지노�T STOP THE 23RD ANNUAL PATRIOTS PEACE MEMORIAL ENSHRINEMENT CEREMONY. WE ARE GIVING RESPECT TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION. AS THE FLAG FLEW HIGH ABOVE. DOZENS OF AMERICANS WHO CAME TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS ON MONDAY. OH, SAY, CAN YOU SEE. THE NAMES OF TWO MEN. LIEUTENANT RUSSELL HUNTER GRIFFITH AND CAPTAIN THOMAS FRANCIS MANTELL JR, WERE ADDED TO THE PATRIOTS PEACE MEMORIAL. SO IT IS TODAY, IN A SERENE SETTING OFF THE BEATEN PATH OF EVERYDAY DISTRACTIONS. WE ARE REMINDED TO SET ASIDE THE UNNECESSARY, TO FOCUS ON THE IMPORTANT. THERE ARE MORE THAN 450 NAMES ETCHED ON THE PATRIOTS PEACE MEMORIAL. ALL ARE SERVICE MEMBERS WHO DIED IN THE LINE OF DUTY FROM NON-COMBAT RELATED INCIDENTS. WE MUST REMAIN. FOREVER MINDFUL THAT FREEDOM, LIBERTY AND DEMOCRACY ARE EARNED BY DEVOTION, VALOR AND UNSELFISH DEDICATION. ONCE SOMEONE IS INDUCTED, A BRICK IS REPLACED WITH A GLASS PLATE THAT HAS THE NAME OF THE FALLEN SERVICE MEMBER ON IT, SO LIGHT CAN SHINE THROUGH THE MEMORIAL. IN THEIR HONOR. LIEUTENANT RUSSELL HUNTER GRIFFITH맥스카지노�S FAMILY WAS AT THE CEREMONY TO PLACE HIS HONORABLE BRICK. I THINK THE CEREMONY IS JUST A BEAUTIFUL EXPRESSION OF REVERENCE TO THOSE WHO WERE WILLING TO SACRIFICE THE GREATEST SACRIFICE FOR THEIR COUNTRY. RUSSELL HUNTER GRIFFITH SERVED IN THE U.S. ARMY CORPS AS A FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR. HE DIED IN A TRAINING ACCIDENT IN 1936 NEAR GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS. HIS FAMILY SAYS IT맥스카지노�S AN HONOR TO KNOW HIS NAME IS NOW FOREVER. A PART OF THIS MEMORIAL. SO WHILE MEMORIAL DAY IS IN MANY WAYS A SAD DAY, WE SHOULD NOT FORGET TO OVERLOOK THE JOY WE GAIN FROM THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE WE REMEMBER S