By Krista Ralston Oakes
My husband and I have traveled to Washington D.C., visiting the National Mall and taking the sobering steps through memorials that remind us of the price that was paid for the cause of liberty. Among these are the World War II Memorial, with its 4,000 gold stars – each representing 100 U.S. casualties; the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which bears over fifty-eight thousand names of lost or missing American heroes on its granite wall; and the Korean War Veterans Memorial, with the faces of unnamed soldiers near the words, “Freedom is Not Free.”

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