Well, my memories, every time I hear Memorial Day, I have to remember my father. Some of y'all may remember my dad, but I brought a picture of him in World War II Memorial here that a doctor at the university wanted to know if I wanted to get him on there, and I said, yeah. My dad was a great athlete. He was a track man at Pittsburgh State Teachers College in Kansas, and graduated in 1935, and he and a friend of his, very good friend, they had lost contact with one another. Fast forward a few years, dad became the head track coach at Wichita State, and shortly after that, he gets his notification to report for his draft physical. Well, this friend of his that he had, he was real close to, had gone to work for the War Department. Back then, it was called the War Department. Well, he calls dad and he said, Ab, that was my dad's name, Abner, good Christian name, but he said, Ab, what's your plan for the war? And he said, I guess I'm going to be in the Army. And he asked him, he said, how would you like to be in the Navy? And he kind of hem-hawed about that. And he said, how would you like to be an officer in the Navy? And he thought that sounded pretty good. So he said, we need someone to go to Athens, Georgia to put our naval pilots through their physical training. He said, you're the one I want to go there and set the program up. So mom said they were there about a year and a half. Dad gets orders to transfer out to San Francisco aboard the USS San Jacinto, a light carrier in Admiral Bull Halsey's battle group. And he spent the next 16 months at sea. Every major battle there was, his dad had never been on a ship in his life. But they made him a gunnery officer. And a light carrier is, first they called them disposable carriers because they would take a heavy cruiser from World War I, chop the superstructure off, put a flight deck on them. But they turned out to have a great battle record because they were light, maneuverable, and pretty fast. And that ship had the distinction of having a young pilot by the name of George H.W. Bush. That's a ship that he was flying off of when he got shot down. And I remember that had a great influence, but men that had influence in forming me and what I am today, my dad, my Uncle Bob, who was a, my Uncle Bob was a enlisted man in Hawaii when the war broke out. And Uncle Bob, they gave him a battlefield commission. He was one of only seven officers, military-wide, that kept his commission at the end of the war. Uncle Bob, even though he didn't have hardly any college, he climbed up in the ranks of full-bird colonel, working with the Department of Defense as an advisor to the Undersecretary of Defense. Not too bad for a guy that didn't have any college. And then I had a great uncle, my dad's uncle, from a little town in Rosalia, Kansas. I know the churches know where that's at. My Uncle Shobe, which is an old time name, Uncle Shobe, I used to have a picture of him. He was in the cavalry. Where'd he go? Where'd Ben go there? He was in the cavalry when they still rode horses instead of flying in helicopters. And Uncle Shobe rode in General Pershing's unit. And I had a picture of him where he had his riding breeches on and his knee boots. But I mean, that was the kind of men that I had influence in my life. And then the meaning of Memorial Day, I can't go on thinking about anything except Brother Ethan, you know. When I got the call that night, I laid on the floor and cried like a baby. But Ethan was just an outstanding young man. And we've had a lot of men in our church that influenced all of us. Brother Disney's dad, Gerald Disney, horribly wounded in World War II. The triage system, whenever they have wounded, they mark them one, two, or three. Well, if you're marked triage one, then you're going to get patched up and sent back into battle. Triage two, you're probably sent to a field hospital, but you'll be able to get back into battle. Triage three, they're going to make you comfortable, but you're going to die. And Brother Disney was triaged three, But he did not succumb to his wounds. And if you all ever got to meet Brother Disney and Alto, there was a real pair right there. Special, special people. Brother Claude Ogden, I got to speak at Brother Claude's funeral. And I thought about a fraternity of men that in World War II, that's the greatest generation World War II, the generation that I consider the greatest generation ever lived. These men, they left everything. They left their families. They left their homes. They left their farms. They left their jobs. They left everything except their faith in God. And they won. They came back. The United States is an infant country. We're a lot younger than almost all these other countries in the world, but why does every country in the world want to be like the U.S.? ? We're free. We have freedom. And God has blessed this nation because of that. I see Brother Claude, though, and Kenny Mall, people like that. They had such a great influence in forming me what I am today. I hope it's pretty good, but anyway. That's just a special day for me, special day for me. And if you get a chance, you might come up and read the certificate I've got on my dad up here. But he was very formative in my life. Thank you.