'Someone's Somebody'

                                                                John 15:13
        "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends."

I have been in a parade...many years ago with our marching band.It was what we did. It felt good to march and 'represent' !! 

We were young and free, marching to the beat of our drummer...We played the music loud and freely,..because we could. I was young and it meant something. But, that 'something' means even 'more' today. 

I am 30 years older, and I see life through a different lens. I am free!! I knew it then, but I truly recognize, remember and KNOW it now.  

Today, there is another parade.I am riding in it with an older man from our community in a Willy's Jeep. When I ride in that parade, I hope someone is watching through the lens of understanding that every freedom we have today came at a great cost to so many!
I hope we remember that each of these someones,who died for our privilege to live freely, really were..... 'somebody's someone'.... 

They gave up their right to live, to give us the privilege to live life freely..

Thank a veteran, for many of their very own somebodies died right at their side. And these names will be etched in their hearts forever.

In World War 2 alone, 50 million people, military and civilian died throughout the world, for this cause of freedom. May this number be etched in our hearts as well, one by one by one.

And, the next time you see a parade?
Wave your arms in wild abandon in honor of those who no longer can.  
Or place your hand over your heart and remember respectfully, those who have gone on to their grave. 
Do either one, because... 'somebody's someone' ...died, to give us that very freedom!