What are you thankful for this Armed Forces Day [2015]?

This is SUCH a great topic and I just absolutely LOVE the responses. Makes me proud to be a Veteran and an American.

I am thankful to be alive after an ied attack in 2006 so I can spend this time with my kids

I'm always eager to restore meaning and reverence to holidays that have been stripped bare of their true and deep significance by a flood of hot dogs, parades, auto races and department store sales gimmicks. Memorial Day is, in my opinion, one of America's true hidden spiritual gems.
It is truly a splendid thing that Americans have designated an annual Memorial Day in which we call to remembrance the great sacrifices of those before us who fought and suffered (and often died) for our nation to preserve its freedom. Without them we would not be here today, and it is fitting that we remember them.
I would like you to consider, what I believe to be two towering spiritual truths of Memorial Day.
The first Memorial Day Spiritual truth, is that America is bigger than us. America is not just a geographical location, America is also an Idea and that idea is freedom. The cost of this idea is steep and always in ever present danger. There are those however who choose to serve and be a part of something bigger than themselves, enabling this idea of America and Freedom to survive.
I submit that we do not have freedom. We were bequeathed freedom by the service and sacrifice of our honored dead and those whose bodies and/or minds are now torn or scarred. Let us not forget the military family members who also pay a price, which bears remembrance, for they endure the terrible stress of loss and uncertainty as their lives have been turned upside down during and in the aftermath of the sacrifice made.
This holiday weekend we celebrate the sacrifice of soldiers' lives for the sake of our freedom. These brave men and women are not merely victims though, each soldier has taken an oath of service which includes willingly laying down his or her life for a greater cause.
The idea that anyone could give up everything - for people he or she doesn't even know - especially when a sacrifice seems so final, is hard to process. Or is it?
This brings us to the second spiritual truth of Memorial Day, that God is bigger than America. God is bigger than America is best evidenced in “John 3:16”, which says “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him, shall not perish, but have eternal life”.
Have you ever meditated on Christ's sacrificial love? Christ's willingness to spill His blood for our sake.
I thank Him with my words, but do little to change my life. Yet this is what God desires of us. We call our soldiers "service men / women" yet that term should describe Christians as well.
Just as sacrifice is required to secure our freedom as Americans, freedom does not exist independently of sacrifice in the life of a believer.
Yes, the gift of faith brings us freedom. - freedom from sin, freedom to be who God made us to be and to know God more deeply. But that freedom came with a price. Our gift of freedom should be used for service. I will close with Galatians 5:13, “You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love”.