“emasculated”
I would like to know how
‘let us die to make men free’
Is a better idea than
,
‘let us live to make men free”?
Even when I was a kid and watched one of the old WW2 pep rally movie I though it odd that you have your troups sining about going to die.
Willing to die for your freedom, but not going to die.
People died to make men free. To say "live" demeans that fact. I lost at least one ancestor (in the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry killed at Chickamauga). Excerpts from a letter to his father from a cousin in the same regiment: "There were 200 lost in our regiment, killed wounded or missing. We are expecting a fight here tomorrow. ... Though I can tell you something else, he fought like a man who had the good of his country at heart."