Here's a simple Prayer for Memorial Day, from your friends at Assailable Cool.
(If you're not the praying type, the following may easily be construed as a "toast" - Be creative.)

To the Men and Women of the United States Armed Forces,

May the Lord bless you and keep you,
and may He guide our country toward a hatred of greed
and imperviousness,
so that we might bring you home
soon.

Amen.

I realize that is directed more at our current troops, than at the veterans who have served us thusly,
but hopefully you gave them your thanks in other ways today (parades, cemetery services, pouring out a 40...whatever),
so the thoughts at AC are to those serving now, and the hope that the bloodshed ends before we lose one more life (American, Iraqi, or Other).

Bless you all.

A special AC1 that was playing through my head all day today:


The Decemberists "16 Military Wives".

...and a Print Deckie to boot - AC Recommended Reading: Citizen You!
Read it... and you'll want our "boys" back in-country tomorrow, too.