Over 1 million United States military members have lost their lives in war throughout the great history of our country.
This weekend is a time set aside by our country to honor and thank those who died in order to defend our country and our liberties.
As I read the statistics of deaths from war to war the other day I was caught off guard by the fact that the Civil War accounted for almost 755,000 deaths, a number that equates to nearly half of all deaths in the dozens of war totals.*
They say that “united we stand,” but it seems that it’s the divisiveness that causes us to fall.
In a War that was well needed (Civil War) the sad thing is that it resulted in Americans killing Americans. Instead of finding ways to agree with one another and live in harmony, we resorted to fighting and killing one another.
Maybe that was needed in order to free slaves, but it seems sad to me that it took such an effort to finally give freedom to slaves and to solve other conflicts within our country.
There’s a lesson we can all learn from this in today’s world. If we are not careful, we will soon find ourselves fighting (and not just arguing on social media) another war among ourselves.
These men and women that we are honoring this weekend would possibly be ashamed to see the country they died for continues to bicker with one another and divide itself over things that could be settled by simply following God’s two laws.
Love God with all your heart, mind, body, soul, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.
*(Civil War numbers reflect U.S./Confederate deaths. Other wars include, but not limited to, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Korean, American Revolutionary, War of 1812, Mexican-American, Iraq, etc.).