Monday Motivation: Remembering What It Is All About.

Good morning, everybody. Good morning. It is a beautiful Memorial Day Monday in Minnesota. I'm from one of my favorite places, and I will show you here momentarily. Hope everybody else is having a great weekend and a good start to your memorial weekend. I wonder what you're going to be doing today. Maybe you'll take. Take a little bit of time in for you and your family, or maybe you'll even remember kind of what this is all about. So it's important to know why we actually have this Monday for ourselves and our family.

Do whatever the heck we want. Cheers to you all. Good morning. Morning, sir. Thank you for your service. My pleasure. You have a good day. You, too. Thank you. So I'm gonna share one of my favorite places here. This is White Bear Lake, Minnesota. I walk and run this lake for four years. I've ran around this lake. 9 miles. And I run around this lake every single weekend, except for when my like this, this back issue that I had going on. But what I want to share with you all is there's this stretch.

So there's this VFW right here, right on the lake. And you can see we have our American flags. And then everything's at half staff today. And there's our memorial. But what I think is the coolest thing about this, what I think is the absolute coolest thing about this is they have these little tiny quote spots. And there's this one that I just love so much. If there must be trouble, let it be in my day that my child may have peace. There's that one, then there's a couple other ones. And every human beast God is implanted principle, which we all call love of freedom, is a patient of impression and pans of deliverance.

We must have freedom and decency among eight nations to have peace. The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace. So I think. I think it's always great to just kind of come here and sit for a minute. So that's why I moved her back a little bit today and to go sit at one of my favorite places on Earth. This kind of remembrance for all of our veterans here of what life is really about and how we get the privilege to even be free to do what we want, when we want, how we want to, and be a part of this.

And I have two fun facts for you in regards to Memorial Day. So Memorial Weekend, the first time Memorial Day was commenced, quote, unquote, was in the late 1800s. And it was by the enslaved from Charleston, South Carolina. After the Civil War. So when the Civil War is wrapping up, the first group of people, people to celebrate was, are enslaved. That's number one. And number two is there was almost 700,000 individuals lost in the Civil War. Almost 700,000 individuals lost in the Civil War. It's not about loss of life, but I think that quote.

Well, it is about loss of life in this case, but that quote about, if there must be trouble, let it be in my day that my child may have peace. And why I say this is because if you go from the Civil war of losing 700,000 to the next one, which will lost 500,000 to the next one, which lost 200,000, finally, all those individuals that lost their lives from 2001 till today was a little shy of 10,000 individuals. And again, I'm not saying that that's a good thing. Please don't take that. What I'm saying.

But what I'm saying is there's that quote about the loss of life. Let it be in my day so my children can have a better peace. As you can see, we go from year to year to year, generation to generation, and we're losing less and less lives through the casualty of war. And I also want to say to anybody and any of their friends, their family, you name it. To anybody who has went through Memorial Day, who has lost anybody, family, friends, relatives, cousins, brothers, and you're grieving or if you've grieved the loss of their lives, I just want to say a warm, heartfelt thank you to all those that have served.

But most importantly, we love those individuals that need some little bit of love today, too, while they're thinking about all their family and those individuals that have served or who have lost. Lost their lives. I think it's just a good moment to actually pause and just think about that husband or wife that is sitting home alone right now that lost their husband or wife to war, to tragedy of war, raising their kids on their own, school on their own, walking their daughter down the aisle alone.

And they did it all for us, and they sacrificed everything for us in order that we can just literally have this freedom to have this day, to have this life, to do anything. So I just. I think it's really important that you take a step back and you just think of, like, how lucky are we? How lucky are we in this moment? So one more time, I just want to share one of my favorite places, try to go here as much as humanly possible. But it's just a beautiful place that takes me to the remembrance of what really, really matters here.

So hopefully you all have a wonderful memorial weekend. I have seen many individuals pop in and join again. I just want to say thank you for coming here. Thank you for remembering what it's all about. Jules, Speak. Wonder. Alicia. You guys are the best. You all take care. Have a wonderful memorial weekend. And so I will stop with the heaviness and hopefully you get the lightness through the rest of the day and just enjoy it and take it in peace. Everybody have a wonderful, wonderful memorial. Not only day, but weekend for you and your family.

Peace. Bye Bye.