Yesterday, I noted that to die for one’s country was an act of love. Way too many people these days view it as an act of futility, or worse a symbol of oppression. How did we get here? I think because of the death of hope. Hope transforms how we look at so much. Those that have died in service to the nation know it is not perfect, but they love it because our nation provides great hope for a better future, and so they die for it. But without that hope, all we see are the nation’s imperfections.

Yesterday dozens died in massive storms throughout the middle part of the nation. It will be news on this news-slow day, but tomorrow when the coastal elites get busy again, it will be relegated to the rear of the first section and by Thursday it’ll be local news. The communities affected will rally and rebuild for they are still hopeful and love their towns. On the coasts the hopelessness will have taken hold, and the storms will be a sign of doom and gloom, of the pending global climate catastrophe. The coasts will turn the dead into political fodder while the middle part of the nation will name the rebuilt buildings for them. The contrast between hope and the absence of hope is vast.

And so, Pete Buttigieg turns a tragic mid-air incident into political fodder. And so, California finds evermore inventive ways to create instability and waste money. Without hope, what were once things to wonder at, create curiosity, and joyfully investigate have become signs of the climate apocalypse. Science itself is compromised by the lack of hope.

Love without hope becomes permissiveness and so our former taboos become celebrated. Without hope, a lifestyle once celebrated is rendered controversial, if not hated. Hope is a powerful thing.

This Memorial Day, as we lay flowers and flags on the graves of those that have sacrificed – let us remember their love, born of their hope. Let us share in their hope. Let us turn that hope into wonder. The best way to remember them is to build a nation worthy of their sacrifice, not bemoan its shortcomings. Let’s join those suffering from yesterday’s storms. That act of hope will do more to honor our lost than all the crepe-hanging we have done in the last decade put together.

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