who unfailingly lock over those patriots known only to god but never forgotten. today a grateful nation thanks him as well. most americans don t fully see, don t fully understand the sacrifice made by the 1% who serve in this all volunteer armed forces. the sacrifice that preserves the freedoms we too often take for granted. few know what it s like to take a bullet for a buddy or to live with the fact that he or she took one for you. but our gold-star families, our military families, our veterans, they know this intimately. whenever i meet with our gold-star families like i did this morning, i hear their pride