In memory of the fallen who served so that we can live free!

Seana Arrechaga kneels beside her husband as he lies in his coffin. Sgt. I st Class Ofren Arrechaga was killed in a firefight in Afghanistan eight days earlier.

Perhaps, just perhaps, in times of reflection we can take a page from the life of Seana and Ofren Arrechaga and learn how to set aside Political party affiliation that divides us and be Americans first, with the profound knowledge that “together we aspire and together we will achieve,” but divided we will fall!

Commit oneself with a 2012 resolution that “you would not allow Sgt. Ofren Arrechaga indispensible sacrifice to be for naught!” Vanity produces wantonness and wasted lives, for “vain are the sharp swords of infernal malice and the perpetual battles of the serpent seed, for in the midst of the Church, the lame take the prey and the feeblest of warriors are crowned.”

Sheriff G Ali