In coming together here, on this Memorial Day, we honor the legacy and memory of all those who didn’t make it home. And the government and the people of the Netherlands consider it a debt of honor to keep commemorating them. It’s a moral duty we gladly accept.   And yet, we live in a time in which peace can no longer be taken for granted. So commemorating alone is not enough. How often, in recent decades, have we repeated the same line – that ‘freedom is not a given’?   Today we must recognize that these words carry obligations.That freedom does not come free. And that we need to invest in defending the freedom that all those who rest here fought so hard to protect.   Honoring that past calls for action in the present.