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This Memorial Day, we honor the Americans who gave their lives in service to this country.
It’s a day to slow down. To be with family. To remember the people behind the names. Sons and daughters, parents, neighbors, friends who answered a call most of us will never have to answer ourselves.
It’s also a day to think honestly about what they died defending. Not a flag. Not a slogan. An idea. The idea that ordinary people, governing themselves, can build something better than what came before. That power belongs to the many, not the few. That freedom, opportunity, justice, and equality are not partisan values. They are American ones.
We are living in an urgent moment for that idea. Democracy is not self-sustaining. It is built and rebuilt by each generation that decides it’s worth the work. By candidates who step up to run for school board and city council and statehouse. By neighbors who knock doors for someone they believe in. By all of you who show up here every day.
That is the through-line from a soldier’s sacrifice to a precinct captain’s Saturday morning. It is all civic service. It is all how a country defends itself.
So today, we remember. And tomorrow, we get back to work, because the best way to honor those who died for this democracy is to make sure it’s still here, stronger, for those who come after.
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