It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George S Patton

2 Timothy 2:3-4
3  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 

This day we honor those who sacrificed their lives for this country.