This Memorial Day is very special as we are in the 150 anniversary of the American Civil War.  The battle named for the little log church called Shiloh was last month.  It was the bloodiest battle in American history up to that time.  In that one battle more Americans on both sides gave their lives than in all of the battles combined in our history.

We as Americans, need to remember that freedom is not free.  It was paid for in blood, the blood of the finest men and women that The United States of America has ever produced.  Americans who paid with their lives for generations they will never know in places they will never visit and may have never heard of.

They died in places most Americans cannot spell and in some cases could not locate on a map.  Places like Chu-Lai and Hill 881.  Chosin, Pusan, Iwo Jima and Kabul. Places in Europe where they now consider all Americans to be stupid and boorish.  Places in China, where the government in power is quite willing to murder its own people.  Places in Cuba where the current government thinks it acceptable to starve and imprison its own people for ideas that we take for granted.

We face a time in this country in which we face tremendous challenges.

We are the people and we continue to pay in blood for the freedoms guaranteed by our founding fathers, Life, Liberty and Property.  Inalienable rights given us by our creator and guaranteed forever by the greatest document ever drawn by the hand of man.  The Constitution of the United States of America.  Defend it! Preserve it!

Join us at KSYC Buffalo Broadcasting in remembering those of our brothers and sisters who paid for your right to enjoy it, with their lives and the lives of their families!  Tune in to KSYC 103.9 FM or on the Internet at www.ksyc1039.com and click on listen live.

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2 pm on Sunday

and at 10am and 5 pm on Monday,

Memorial Day, 2012.

Mark Baird

KSYC Buffalo Broadcasting