Posted on May 25, 2013
This Monday, May 27th, the United States will celebrate Memorial Day, a time to remember veterans of our armed forces who gave their lives to defend our country. These brave men and women gave the ultimate sacrifice to protect the freedoms of Americans back home. The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization(ADAO) invites you to light a candle on Monday to honor the memory of those no longer with us. We are all connected to someone who has lost his or her life fighting for our country: a grandparent, parent, brother, sister, husband, wife, or friend. It is important that we remember the sacrifices they made.
In honor of Memorial Day, ADAO would like to encourage all to light a candle to honor the brave veterans who have fallen, but not been forgotten, while serving our country. We also light a candle to remember those brave veterans who lost their lives to mesothelioma and asbestos-related disease: Steve McQueen, Ron Cyrus, and Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, the youngest man to serve as Chief Officer of Naval Operations. These brave men are only three of the many veterans who served their country and lost their lives to asbestos, a foe they could neither see, nor fight, that was used on many Navy ships. As we light candles to remember those we have lost, we can only hope that each year fewer brave men and women have their lives taken from them prematurely. Click here to light a candle online.
In unity,
Linda