Monday Motivation: Memorial Day Style.

Good morning, everybody. I'm just gonna give it 1 minute. Just gonna give it 1 minute until the little notification pops, and then I know that we are officially live. Live. I hope everybody's having a wonderful memorial day. Their families remembering what this is all about. Let's give her one more minute here. By minutes sometimes I mean seconds. That's okay. I actually spent last night with the one and only alec Dewitts from Cadre. We had a great time together. He got to hang out with my family.

We went swimming, grilled. It was just a magical experience. But we'll give it 1 second while people join. We're going to have to probably hurry a little bit because the rain's coming, but regardless. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. So, as everybody knows, I'm a creature of habit. I do the same things a lot. And one of the things I used to do for years and years and years was walk down around this beautiful lake that I'm right on the north side of. But every memorial day, they have a memorial day celebration.

When they have a Memorial Day celebration, they put the flags up around, and it just turns into this beautiful. And right next door is the VFW. So the VFW is right there on the lake. And then, like I said, so it's a Memorial Day celebration. It's at noon today, and I can't wait for it. But there's just a couple things that I wanted to read as you continue to move closer, you know, especially on Memorial Day, when it's just like, just to be able to stand here, like, think of how lucky we are, you know, with what's going on in the Ukraine, what's going on in our world, and just to have this moment of time, to be able to walk and be free and all the things.

So then when you come over here at Memorial park, you'll see the different United States Navy, Marine, armed troops. And then it says this. We want to thank you for all the things you do, for all your sacrifices and all that you go through. For wanting to serve others, for giving all of your best, for. For showing such commitment, no matter what the test, for always showing courage and never being weak, showing strength in troubled times when freedom is what you seek. For being an inspiration no matter where you trod, for striving to keep this nation, one nation, under God.

And then, so when, like I told everybody, like, I used to be on the same walk path for years and years and years, and this is one of my most favorite things right over here that I want to share. So this one here, if there must be trouble, let it be in my day that my child may have peace. And I just think that's really, really, really special. And, you know, you just got to take a look at like, every generation is basically saying the exact same thing for their own kids. And as a parent and as a father, for, you know, my hope always is that my child just has a better place than what we have today.

So in celebration of Memorial Day, and like I said, it's going to start raining pretty soon here, but it's just a beautiful, beautiful day. And we get to share this day because of all those that have fought for us, have sacrificed for us and done whatever it takes that we are able to ultimately be free. So with that being said, I just want to say happy Memorial Day to you, to your families, to all those that, you know, that have served, that have lost their lives in war, you name it. And just think, like, just how lucky we are, you know?

And again, there's a couple more here. America's privilege to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and peace. Woodrow Wilson, the legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace. We must have freedom and decency among nations to have peace. In every human breast, God has implanted a principle which we call love of freedom. It is impatient of impression and pants for deliverance. So I end with, have a wonderful memorial day. Celebrate with your families.

Remember what this day truly is about. And last but not least is if you ever see somebody, ever see somebody with a navy hat on, an army head on, a VFW head on, stop in your tracks and tell them thank you the minute you see it. It's something that I've ingrained in my children. It's something I do no matter what. We all have a second, a moment to stop whatever you're doing and just say thank you. Thank you for your service. Thank you for giving. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We owe everything to them.

You know, some of the classmates that I grew up with in 99, I graduated in 1999. You know, ultimately, you know, they, they graduated at 18, 1920 years old. You know what I mean by 18 1920 is when, you know, the iraqi freedom Iraqi started and the Iraq war started in 20 01, 20 02, 20 03 and a lot of my classmates went off to go fight and, you know, that's whenever I get the opportunity to sometimes meet up with them or hear from them. And those individuals that went off, they're very, very different.

What I mean by different is they went through a lot at a young, impressionable age. And just to think of all of our VF soldiers and our Korean War soldiers and you name it, serving at a very young age and an influential age at that. So remember that you guys have a wonderful, wonderful day. And always remember what Memorial Day is truly, really all about. Enjoy the day, you guys. Bye bye now. Bye.