In Honor of Armed Forces Day May 16, 2026

To Military Personnel in the U.S. Armed Forces.

You are the first line of defender, and the final beacon of hope in the World.

When darkness threatened to swallow whole continents—as it did across Europe and Asia in the horrifying hours of World War II,  it was the U.S Armed Forces who broke that darkness, and liberated millions.

And today, where nations under the heavy chains of tyranny, yearning for the breath of liberation—like those 90 million defiant in Iran, or elsewhere in the world where freedom is denied—

the name of the United States Armed Forces is whispered as the unshakeable promise for Freedom: the ultimate Defender, the true Liberator.

  May God bless, protect all of you in every mission you undertake.

 

Acknowledgments: Image, U.S flag ©U.S Army Europe and Africa. By Catherine S. Schmidt, Director and Editor in Chief. (Copyrighted material)