Friday, 04 July 2008

• Independence Day!!!!!!!!

  Fireworks, burgers on the grill, maybe a day at the lake or on the boat;  hot summer sun, cold drinks, and dodging mosquitoes.  4th of July!

  Here, somewhen today, we'll talk about King's Mountain, Camden, Ninety Six, Valley Forge.  We'll remember Adams and Washington, Jefferson, Nathaniel Green, Daniel Morgan, the sharpshooters who were husbands, fathers and sons, who, because of their bravery and sacrifice secured our freedom from a crown without compassion.  Because I know my son, and because I remember my brothers, we will also pray for men and women fighting for freedom throughout the world today, plead the cause of those still bound.

  No matter what side we take on the war our troops are fighting, we must understand the fact that war is costly.  Monetarily, emotionally.  We are losing men and women who are sons and daughters, wives and husbands, friends and coworkers.  We argue in the press about the "why"...and I suppose history books decades to come will still be arguing it.  In the fray, we must never forget the "what"...someone else is gaining their freedom from oppression and tyrannical rule.  Like the French long ago, our government's motivations do nothing to blunt the effectiveness of our aid to those in fetters. 

  While we are not the world's police, we must be the neighbor that will not sit idly by while abuses grow ever more egregious.  By so doing, it may be that we preserve the freedom brave men continue to guard for us.

  Happy Independence Day!

   

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