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Price of Freedom
Original | 05/10/2004 | Chris Davis

Posted on 05/10/2004 7:53:09 PM PDT by writer33

Price of Freedom

Freedom isn’t cheap. It’s the most expensive asset in America. Without freedom, all other assets would become negligible. If we take a look at a balance sheet, freedom would be listed as a Long Term Asset, the kind of asset that takes years and years to pay off.

Who pays it off? The United States Armed Forces. The men and women in the military make that payment on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. Over the years, those sacrifices made have been an installment to freedom. Each deployment and death have made life in America all the more perfect. Those in uniform have provided us with a balance sheet of long term assets like no other country in the world.

We have become a superpower through the use of our U.S. Armed Forces. Each entity of those forces-Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard-provide us with ample protection against enemies, foreign and domestic. Their blood has allowed the pursuit of excellence, in business, in politics, and around the world.

The freedom to make those daily choices in our lives is provided by strangers at home and in far and distant lands. Every stranger stood at a podium and took an oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Within the Constitution lie our inherent daily freedoms and rights. The rights the media loves to wave their flag at.

The media loves to tout their freedom of speech. Oh, yes, their freedom of speech, the First Amendment to the Constitution. The one they cherish so closely. The one they champion vigorously, even if it means putting our soldiers in harm’s way. No matter what it takes, the story must go forth, in accordance with the U.S. Constitution. That is their belief. That is their sentiment. It is those principles that drive them, day after day, without any regard for those that bear the responsibility for allowing that very freedom.

Liberalism and the liberal media have done more to endanger our soldiers lives than any war. Over the last ten years-Bosnia, Kosovo, and Mogadishu-are examples of bright, shining liberal causes, placing our troops in danger. All of these deployments were to foreign countries on liberal humanitarian missions. These causes were pushed heavily by the U.S. and World media. President Bill Clinton, the most liberal President since Jimmy Carter, governed all of these exercises after “The Big Media” insisted we intervene for the cause of humanity.

Recently, with the release of pictures from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the liberal media has chastised Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush, and our soldiers. Quickly, they chant fond remembrances of John Kerry’s testimony and atrocities of Vietnam.

Single-handedly, they make the likeness to the “murder of innocent women and children,” as testified by John Kerry in 1971. In their push to blame the sons and daughters of America, they point out the First Amendment to the Constitution. They identify their freedom of speech as their “cause.” The right of the American people to know. They press the story, harder and harder, making it seem as if it broke only a few short days ago. In truth, the story has been circulating since January, when the silence in the media could be compared to a small town library on Sunday afternoon.

They sit on their lofty chairs, as if they were kings, pointing their fingers at a few bad apples, and stating, “See this is what are military does. They are to blame for everything wrong in Iraq. We told you so.” In their haste, they scold the personnel responsible for giving them an opportunity to sit on their thrones.

With a few exceptions-Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Free Republic, etc…-they jeer at them in their hypocrisy. There are few media personnel and liberals today that can really appreciate the plights of our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and mothers and fathers. In their heyday, they spit upon my father’s generation. Now, they attempt to spit upon mine. I will not bow my head in shame.

They scream their vitriol, attempting to once again relive the Vietnam War, and forgetting that Mogadishu harmed the reputation of the U.S. Military far more than these pictures in Iraq. Liberals, and the media elite, seem to become absent-minded in their rage. They seem to misplace the demoralizing stain Mogadishu left on are Armed Forces and Special Forces. The U.S. Special Forces, among the best to serve in our military, were handcuffed like prisoners going to trial in Mogadishu. President Bill Clinton branded our military as “cowards” that cut and run, making it near impossible to earn the fear and respect of terrorists.

Now, as we approach Armed Forces Day, a new president sits in office. President George W. Bush, a fine example of moral integrity, leads our troops in Iraq. Today, he roots out terrorism, as if it were termites invading the foundation of American homes. He sends our men and women into battle on a cause for freedom, liberating the Iraqi people from dictatorship and establishing a democracy. He apologizes for the actions of a few, but keeps his faith in our military.

Never have I felt more patriotic than on this day. Never have I been reminded of what it meant to have served this fine country. This America, the beacon of freedom for the rest of the world. And never have I been so lucky to have those individuals make sacrifices for the price of freedom.

There hasn’t been a president, like George W. Bush, since President Ronald Reagan brought us from our liberal slumber. He (Reagan) made us feel patriotic again. He made us proud to brandish the title, American. President Reagan brought excellence to business, to culture, and to our spirituality as Americans. He made us whole again. President George W. Bush follows that same legacy. He took a broken country away from President Bill Clinton and is attempting to piece it together.

President George Bush has taken a once defeated military and made them confident and strong again. He has made the price of freedom all the more worth it in the 21st Century. Today, I am a prouder American, a thriving American, and a more patriotic American than five years ago.

Despite the claims of the liberal media, I am thankful for the sons and daughters, brothers and sister, and mothers and fathers serving in our military. I am forever grateful of their sacrifices for the price of freedom. Despite a few bad apples from Abu Ghraib prison, I remain filled with honor. I have served with some of the finest individuals I’ll ever know, those that knew the price of freedom.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: armedforcesday; conspiracy; excellentvanity; honor; iraq; soldiers; war
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For Armed Forces Day and all of those who serve or those that have family that serve.
1 posted on 05/10/2004 7:53:10 PM PDT by writer33
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To: Gabz; onyx; cyborg; arasina; CobaltBlue
Here you go.
2 posted on 05/10/2004 7:54:59 PM PDT by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a Conservative)
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Here you go.
3 posted on 05/10/2004 7:58:42 PM PDT by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a Conservative)
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To: cavtrooper21
Bump for later
4 posted on 05/10/2004 8:00:12 PM PDT by cavtrooper21 ("Do you know the waffle-man, the waffle man, the WAFFLE-MAN...(hint: name's John.))
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To: writer33
Great writing I couldn't agree more .
5 posted on 05/10/2004 8:02:58 PM PDT by Freesofar (Thank You to our Troops for defending us day and night)
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To: writer33
Nicely done, Chris.
6 posted on 05/10/2004 8:05:09 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: writer33
We have so much to be thankful for
7 posted on 05/10/2004 8:06:08 PM PDT by TxtoLA (Let them be judged by their own words.)
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To: writer33
Superb as always!!!!!!!!!

Thanks.
8 posted on 05/10/2004 8:11:14 PM PDT by Gabz (Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my cigarettes)
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To: Freesofar; arasina
Thank you. I appreciate the sentiments.
9 posted on 05/10/2004 8:12:05 PM PDT by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a Conservative)
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To: Gabz
"Thanks."


Thank you for being a great American.
10 posted on 05/10/2004 8:13:58 PM PDT by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a Conservative)
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To: Pelham; speedy
Here you go.
11 posted on 05/10/2004 8:27:27 PM PDT by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a Conservative)
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To: writer33
Thank you for being a great American.

That is one of the nicest things anyone has said to me in a very long time..............I say that truly sincerely as I wipe tears from my eyes. Thank you.

12 posted on 05/10/2004 8:29:08 PM PDT by Gabz (Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my cigarettes)
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To: Gabz
"That is one of the nicest things anyone has said to me in a very long time..............I say that truly sincerely as I wipe tears from my eyes. Thank you."


You're welcome and its true. :)


13 posted on 05/10/2004 8:33:02 PM PDT by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a Conservative)
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To: writer33
Right on target, Chris. Telling it like it is. At some point our Baathist, terrorist-sympathizing America-hating media needs to be confronted directly, and very pointedly. Maybe we should start organizing protests. Confrontational protests. They are really feeling their oats these days, and they need to know how much we hate them. Now you've got me fired up. Thanks, friend.
14 posted on 05/10/2004 8:37:21 PM PDT by speedy (Tagline for demonstration purposes only. Not for internal consumption.)
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To: speedy
"Right on target, Chris. Telling it like it is. At some point our Baathist, terrorist-sympathizing America-hating media needs to be confronted directly, and very pointedly. Maybe we should start organizing protests. Confrontational protests. They are really feeling their oats these days, and they need to know how much we hate them. Now you've got me fired up. Thanks, friend."

You're most welcome.
15 posted on 05/10/2004 8:46:50 PM PDT by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a Conservative)
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To: speedy; writer33
Now you've got me fired up.

Me too!!!

The anti war nuts are doing another protest at one of the local shopping centers agains this weekend............I think I will do more than I did the last time I saw them.

That time my husband was driving and we were sitting at the redlight....they were at the curb and I openned my window and told them they should be thanking the military instead of condemning them........not a one of them had a clue what I meant when I said it was those men and women that protected their right to be such vocal horses' rearends (those weren't my words)

16 posted on 05/10/2004 8:57:02 PM PDT by Gabz (Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my cigarettes)
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To: writer33
bump....for a good excellant read.
17 posted on 05/10/2004 8:59:40 PM PDT by Blue Scourge (Off I go into the Wild Blue Yonder...)
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To: writer33; wardaddy; Travis McGee; Squantos; SandRat; river rat; Doc Savage; Howlin; ...
Beautifully written.
Please yall, take time to read his essay.
Worth reading, and I've pinged so many! :)
18 posted on 05/10/2004 9:03:15 PM PDT by onyx (Rummy's job is winning the war, not micro-managing some damn prison.)
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To: Gabz
Nice going, Gabz. Give those creepy crawlers a taste of it. We need to get our NYC area Freepers together to march on the Times building -- the root of all evil --I was contemplating actually occupying the damn place, but unlike the jobless lefties who you went after, I actually have a job and my employers would frown on a breaking-and-entering arrest. As one former Delawarean to another, I salute you. (And to think Delaware once had Pete duPont and Bill Roth and John Williams. What went wrong?)
19 posted on 05/10/2004 9:05:29 PM PDT by speedy (Tagline for demonstration purposes only. Not for internal consumption.)
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To: onyx
Thanks for pinging. I hope I didn't keep you up too late in Mississippi? I appreciate your sentiments, onyx. You're too nice.
20 posted on 05/10/2004 9:11:16 PM PDT by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a Conservative)
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