In this country, we have two major holidays celebrating the men and women of our armed services, the people who keep this place “the land of the free” and who put the “brave” in “home of the brave.”

Memorial Day commemorates largely those veterans we’ve lost, who fought and gave their lives in the service of our country.

Today, Veterans’ Day, celebrates primarily those veterans still with us, members of the military’s branches who served this country with distinction in two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, the Persian Gulf and who continue to serve anywhere and everywhere else someone decides we are needed.

We are America — the world’s police force, or so we have been for more than 100 years.