Dear editor, Once again, another year and another Memorial Day.

Yay, a three-day holiday to do housework, sleep in, barbecue, shop and to do whatever the hell we please right now, right or wrong. People of Napa and all you Americans, think of what is going on around you in this world: turmoil, wars, global warming, gas is sky high, all the killings on your own streets, the homelessness.

Let’s stop this year and think and thank God or whatever your beliefs are, and thank all those that are overseas, or wherever, and thank them. Go up to that Vietnam vet on the street corner and give him a sack of food or a buck and thank him for his sacrifice for your freedom.

Go to the Vets Home and thank the World War I, World War II, Korea, Iraq, Iran vets and tell all of them thank you for my and our freedom. Go to the cemeteries and thank all those under all those white markers, thank you for our freedom.

I drove from Imola Avenue down Jefferson Street to Trower Avenue, Vintage High School, and counted only eight American flags. That is wrong, Napans and all Americans. This year, dust Old Glory off, buy one and fly her high and with pride. Show your American pride to your country and town.

Stop one minute of your busy day, take a walk in the park, dip your toes in the green grass or that fountain. Say hello to that person on the street, “How you doing today? I’m proud to be American. Are you?”

Free at last, free at last, thank God I’m free at last.

One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.

God bless America, my home sweet home.

So, Mr. Editor, Napans and all you Americans, stop this Memorial Day and just say thank you to all those men and women of all wars who gave all to our country and remember them and those who survived these wars. Give them a big “Thank you for my freedom.”

Alan Foshee

Napa