Memorial Day Message from your WDVA Director

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On Memorial Day, we honor and reflect on the service of those who gave their lives in defense of our country.  We also honor their comrades who served, came back home to resume their lives, and were called by the supreme commander to join the post everlasting. On this day, when we pause to remember, there are essential lessons for the young, and indeed for all of us as well:  appreciate the blessings of freedom, recognize the power and virtue of sacrifice, and honor those who gave everything on behalf of our common good.

This day reminds us of our duty to honor, not only, those we lost in freedom's cause, but also, the service men and women who returned home and due to emotional wounds and other circumstances, were lost to suicide.  These casualties, sometimes long after their military service, go unreported.  We also remember the families of thousands of loved ones missing in action.

Wherever you are on Monday, at 3:00 pm, please join our grateful nation in a moment of remembrance by pausing anything you may be doing for a moment of silence.

Yours in service,

Alfie

LOURDES E. ALVARADO-RAMOS "Alfie"

My Pronouns: She/Her/Veteran

Director

Washington Department of Veterans Affairs

Desk Phone:     (360) 725-2155

Mobile Phone:   (360) 791-4339

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