My family is with me today. They wanted to come with me. To be honest with you, I wasn’t sure how I’d feel coming back here. Every day I think about what you said to me that day on the bridge. I tried to live my life the best that I could. I hope that was enough. I hope that, at least in your eyes, I’ve earned what all of you have done for me.  — Saving Private Ryan

If you ever get the chance, and I suggest that you find a way at some time in your life to do so, you should go to a place like Normandy.  If you can’t get that far from home, I suggest going somewhere like Arlington, Antietam, or Gettysburg.  If you’re feeling adventurous, go somewhere like El Alamein, Gallipoli, or Iwo Jima.  All of these places have one thing in common:  they all are places where men have placed their bodies between death and their homes.  They are all marked with monuments and graves that remind us of the responsibility, which we all carry, to deserve what they bought for us with their blood and their lives.