By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - We recently celebrated Memorial Day, the day on which we remember the heroic sacrifices made for us by those who served in the military... Catholics should be especially disposed to respect such memorials, however, for several reasons. First, because Catholics have benefited as much as anyone else from the sacrifices of these men and women, and in certain ways more, since it was by them that their religious freedom was won – a freedom so few people in the world today enjoy.