Flags today in tribute wave
For those loyal ones who gave
Of their youth, their hopes. their might
For a cause they knew was right.
Morning bells sound their call.
Pause and say a prayer for all~
All who served valiantly
That men might be ever free.
Taps from quiet Arlington
Echo again.
Ever keep in memory
Peace-loving men,
Who, hating tyranny,
Struggled that liberty
Should for all time be
Won for every land.
Once again the challenge came,
And the answer was the same.
Eager hearts have made it clear
We would guard what we hold dear.
Toll of bells, drums’ slow beat-
Silence falls in every street.
In each heart swells the plea:
Keep us safe, but keep us free!
~Kate Englehardt Clark~
In America, we enjoy the freedom of giving half our income to the government through various forms of taxes. We have the freedom to participate in a Ponzi scheme known as Social Security. We have the freedom to vote for the president. Unlike the voters of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, who only had one choice for president, we have two choices! We have the freedom to choose between Republican-led big government programs and Democrat-led big government programs. We have the freedom to use government-controlled money, which loses value every year. We have the freedom to subsidize the poltically-connected agricultural, automotive, and banking industries. We have the freedom of sending children through the compusory government-run education system, and then pay for job training for those that get through 12 years of schooling and still don’t know how to do anything. We have the freedom to own guns, provided that said gun is approved by the government and we pass the government-mandated background check. If we get the appropriate permits and stand in then proper free-speech zone, we have the freedom to protest.
Thanks to all the veterans that defended these freedoms and kept them from being taken away!
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