Posted on 07/04/2008 9:12:49 AM PDT by blogsforthompson.com
Today is the 232nd Birthday of our nation. It is a good day to reflect on just how blessed we are to live in what is truly the greatest nation on earth - not only presently, but in all human history.
I do not say that lightly. I know that here have been many great civilizations down through the centuries, and many empires that have come and gone. Some have achieved great wealth, and others extended their domain to vast reaches. But there has never been a nation that existed for the foundational purpose of freedom for it's citizens, and been willing to help bring freedom to so many others around the world.
On this July 4, hundreds of millions of people across Europe are free because the United States was willing to give 400,000 of it's finest to liberate them from the oppression of the Nazis in World War II. Millions more are free today because we stood against the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union for more than 40 years and brought it down through the strength of our ideals and our united will spanning many generations and Presidential Administrations.
Today, tens of millions are free in Afghanistan and Iraq because of our liberation (not occupation) that maintains the highest ideals of America.
It appears we are headed for a season of night in America where it will not be fashionable to stand up and say apology that the United States is the greatest nation on Earth. The radical left - who take advantage of freedoms provided by so many patriots through the decades - constantly apologizes for this nation and see only what they believe to be deficiencies as they look through their lens of revisionist history.
But as has happened before, one day Americans will wake up to the deficiencies of those who hate their own nation, and who feel the need to "remake" America. America does not need to be "remade." America is the "shining city on a hill," as Ronald Reagan used to say. The principles of freedom and liberty for all don't need to be "remade." They need to be unleashed once again. If done so, our future as a nation will be ever-brighter and stronger.
So, on the July 4, give thanks to God for the blessings of freedom and liberty, and be a citizen who is not ashamed to tell the world about the greatness of the land in which you are so blessed to live.
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