Memorial Day's Real Meaning

CATONSVILLE, MD -- This photo shows the late U.S. Navy veteran Harper Griswold welcoming troops home at BWI-Thurgood Marshall Airport.

I was honored to be a friend of Harper, who at age 19 took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

Harper often spoke to me about the horrors of war and of his lifelong "survivor guilt" stemming from D-Day.

"Why did God let me live," he once said as he cried on a Memorial Day, "when so many died that day?"

May we never forget the ultimate sacrifices made by our veterans to protect and preserve our freedom.

And may these heroes always rest in eternal peace
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