Happy Memorial Day!
It's a special edition of Joy in the Morning today as we'll be featuring a lot of great patriotic music throughout the morning along with all your other favorites as well.
Since it's the Memorial Day holiday we are doing things a little bit different today like pre-empting our local and regional news along with our scriptural pursuit contest; however, it all returns tomorrow!
Today's Amazing Fact: A few months before John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, his brother Edwin Booth, saved the life of Lincoln's son Robert when he fell onto a railway line.
Here's a poem we shared on air this Memorial Day:
Freedom Is Not Free
by Kelly Strong
I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.
I look at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of TAPS one night,
When everthing was still
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
The TAPS had meant "Amen",
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
And was reminded
No, Freedom isn't free.
Happy Memorial Day!
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