EDITORIAL
Wish I
could take credit for writing this one, but I can't, and unfortunately, the author is
unknown. This was forwarded to me by a friend who knows I "like this kind of
stuff."
Thank you, Friend!
~~ J.E. Bean
Hut at Valley Forge, PA
These tiny shelters (roughly 8'x10') accommodated up to
10 soldiers at one time
I want
you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at Valley
Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands. He
stands barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded
from months of battle and emotionally scarred from the eternity
away from his family surrounded by nothing but death and carnage
of war.
He stands tough, with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks
at us now in anger and disgust and tells us this...
I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution and now your
children graduate too illiterate to read it.
I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote and you stay
at home because it rains.
I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and you remain
silent on critical issues, because it might be bad for business.
I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and it has
stolen democracy from the people.
It's the soldier not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press.
It's the soldier not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech.
It's the soldier not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate.
It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is
draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!!
* * *
"Lord, hold our troops in
your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them
and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in
our time of need."
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