Usually I post something having to do with history, or a major event… but the past week has me thinking more and more about everything that has been going on. Let’s not wait for the last Monday in May, the 4th of July or the 11th of November… Let’s not wait for the brutal death of our country men, or the solider killed in a roadside bomb. Let’s remember the men, from that faithful day near Concord Bridge, to the boys who braved the cold at Valley Forge. The men who defended the city of Baltimore, under the rockets’ red glare. The boys who followed their states, who suffered and died at places like Sharpsburg and Gettysburg. The men in the Trenches of France. Those who waded in the shores of Utah and Omaha, who island hopped the South Pacific. Suffered constant onslaught in Bastogne, not just from the enemy but from the cruel winter. The men who fought and died for the 38th parallel… The helicopter pilots in the Ia Drang Valley, who defied orders and unarmed flew in water and supplies to the surrounded troops and then flew out the wounded. The brave souls who died making sure the poor and oppressed in Somalia received food and water. The Men and women who have selflessly served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and all over the middle east helping to end the oppression that has been felt all over that region as well as the world. These men, and women, will not have died in vain. They constitute what it means to be an American.
From the Patriots of Concord, The soldiers fighting our own Civil War and those who have fought to allow others the right to live and understand what freedom means. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”
So many of you are now wondering where this rambling is coming from… in short I don’t really know. All I can say, or ask, is if you see a soldier, or a veteran, stop, shake their hand and just thank them. Not because it is a Holiday or a movie came out, but because of the most important reason, that each one of them has served so that all of us could be here and enjoy the freedom which we all enjoy.