Remember the Reason for the Holiday
Posted by: Jeff Flint | 05/26/2008 11:40 PM
Enjoy the third day of your holiday weekend, but take a moment to remember what the reason for the Holiday is. Veterans' Day in November is to honor all of those who served. Today is to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to defend our freedoms. Take a moment to reflect. And if you don't have your flag flying at home, it is not too late.
The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Women's right to vote didn't exist until they fought for it. Blacks rights for equality didn't happen until...
Thanks, Jeff. Glad to see those words re-printed.
FREEDOM'S SOURCE
Author Unknown
It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves under the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.
Were it not for the brave, there would be no land of the free.
And I will add my favorite quote from John Adams as a small token of thanks for those who are serving, those who have served and those who gave all that we might enjoy our liberties!
John
"The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts.
I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain."
-- John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: in a letter to Abigail Adams, 1780
Yep, this is sad. Soldiers had to die so that moderates and other "conservatives" could have the right to spew their political puke. I'm amazed at how many names I recognize in this blog who used to be solid conservatives who have sold out for business interests and support a sorry excuse like Ose. Absolutely sickening!