Greetings. It's Monday, May the 27th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Quote, I am at a loss for words. The PGA Tour is a family, and when you lose a member of your

family, you are never the same. End quote. This is how PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monaghan

responded to the death on Saturday of professional golfer, Grace and Murray, at the age of 30.

Yesterday, his family announced that he had died by suicide. In

tomorrow's daily article, I plan to discuss his passing in the context of his recent commitment to

Christ. Grayson's death is not the only tragedy in this morning's news. The Papua New Guinea government

says a landslide Friday buried more than 2,000 people alive and is formally

asking for international help. Tornadoes and storms left at least 18 dead across the central U.S.

Gaza authorities are claiming that Israeli airstrikes killed at least 35 Palestinian civilians

in a rafa tent camp. On this Memorial Day, however, I want to focus on our country's annual remembrance

of the more than one million men and women who died in military service to our country.

While every untimely passing is tragic, their deaths are different.

America is not an autocracy like Russia, where soldiers are conscripted into wars that their fellow citizens have no voice in choosing.

We elect the leaders who represent us when they choose to go to war.

Our taxes support our military. Our soldiers are volunteers.

Every member of the military you have ever met took a personal oath to defend you against all enemies foreign and domestic.

It is their service and ultimately their sacrifice that enables our way of life.

U.S. Army veteran Charles Michael Province observed, quote,

It is the soldier, not the minister, who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier,

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