As you all know, we are participating in the annual Vietnam Memorial Push Up Challenge. The challenge is for us as a group to do one push up for every name on the Vietnam Memorial Wall by Memorial Day. There are 58,267 names listed on the wall, each an American serviceman or woman who died as a direct result of the conflict.
To date we have performed 28,622 push ups and are over 3,000 ahead of our goal. Good for us. Lest we forget, though, the real value in participating is that we are reminded just how big a number 58,267 is and that each number is really a name: some one's son or daughter, brother, sister, or friend, who never got a chance to experience a full life. Each of these lives, and those of hundreds of thousands more who died in our other conflicts, represents a debt we have to pay by keeping America free, being good citizens, and living by our core values of Honor, Courage, Commitment. Keep this in mind when you feel yourself slacking off.
