Harvey Mackay
Mackay's Moral: Make sure you aren't just making a living, that you are also making a life.


Quote of The Month

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

- John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States
(refreshing words in these political times)



Freedom Isn't Free!

I watched the flag pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young
Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut
square and eyes alert
He'd stood out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died
on foreign soil
How many mothers' tears.
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea
How many foxholes
were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still,
I listened
to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had
draped a coffin,
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers,
sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in
Arlington,
No, freedom isn't free.
Enjoy Your Freedom
and God Bless Our Troops.

VETERANS DAY is November 11th!