[familyop]

"Its also true its free people who give their lives so the rest of us can enjoy our freedoms."

People in the service, especially light combat line platoon soldiers whose job is rough living and killing, give up their freedoms to defend the freedoms of others. There's very little freedom under the military code. For example, I've gone with teams to forcibly take AWOL soldiers to their tightly packed platoons. That's only one example of many.

[goldstategop]

I meant that as a free people we have the privilege of defending the freedom of others as soldiers.

That’s been unique to America until relatively recently in history.

Only free men can defend a free country. When we lose sight of it, only then will we no longer have freedom here.