Happy Memorial Day!I was going to write something in my normal fashion (glib/funny) about serving in the military. But I started thinking about it. I have a lot of friends who have served or are still and a lot of coworkers in the military around the world. I also have two nephew's in the service. Allen, who is in the Army and currently stationed in Afghanistan and Anthony who just joined the Navy and is in school in Florida. So, my point is this, out of my 318 friends on FB the vast majority are currently serving, have served or will be serving in the military at some point in their life.Now a lot of them will tell you that they signed up for the benefits or what ever. But no matter why they signed up, here is a simple fact. Just in my circle of friends and family almost 300 people that I know personally put aside whatever fear they had about being in the military, getting shot at or leaving their families for extended periods during moments that most of us treasure all our lives, to do a job they probably either dislike or dislike doing under the conditions they have to do them.Most of them are not doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. They do it make their lives better and in the process make the lives of their friends and families better. A lot of them don't normally think about the patriotic thing they are doing, they are just trying to do a job. If nothing else thank them for that and for the service they provide.Then there are those great many who have given the ultimate sacrifice of dying in service to our country. I am sure that they were all people doing just what my friends and family do, just trying to do the job. But somewhere in the course of their service they were put in some pretty awful circumstances that required them to do the job they do every day under conditions that would cause most of us to quit. Yet, they kept performing their jobs and in most cases better, faster and more accurately than they ever had before. This is because that was what needed to happen. Still, fate decided against them and they had yet another higher price to pay. I don't think there is a piece of land on this planet that hasn't seen an American servicemen die trying to keep all of us safe. So for that, don't just thank us that are still around. Thank the kids and spouses of those that didn't make it home. Offer them some help or kindness, like they and their loved ones did for you. It's the least you could do.