Pioneer Day

Statement

As we celebrate this Pioneer Day today, it offers us an opportunity to reflect on the sacrifices of those who have gone before.

We live in a place and time that has been shaped and blessed by those who put the dream of a better future above that of the luxuries of the time that they lived in. These pioneers thought not just of themselves, but of their children and posterity that would come after them. They wanted to prepare a place that would create a legacy for many future generations to come.

Now as we benefit from their great sacrifices, will we seek to enjoy the relative luxury and ease that their efforts have granted to us, and not seek to continue the legacy that they left for us? Will our casualness with regard to that legacy allow it to pass to future generations, or will it slip through our fingers and leave our posterity with a future that offers less opportunity than we have been blessed with?

Pioneer day is as much about remembering the past as it is for us to realize how we are pioneers for future generations. We like them must be "Those Who Go Before", we must clear the trails and paths, open the metaphorical farm land for those who come after us to have an opportunity to grow and plant in a land of liberty. To this end it is our responsibility to be ever vigilant to prevent the loss of liberty, however noble the cause. As Benjamin Franklin Said:

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

So with this celebration of the pioneering spirit, and the relative prosperity that it has blessed us with, let us commit this day to be "One Who Goes Before" and prepare the way so that those generations that follow after us will celebrate and remember our efforts in the same manner that we remember those of previous generations that gave so much to us.

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