This is what I put up on the 4th in 2006. Still very relevant
The fourth of July
My father spent WW II in New Guinea and the Philippines, while my uncle (at 18 years old) served on an aircraft carrier. As a bonus my Dad also got re-called for the Korean War, spending 18 months there. He didn’t see me until I was over a year old.
The following was posted on Michelle Malkin’s website.
From Zell Miller’s RNC speech in 2004:
Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier.
And, our soldiers don’t just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.
For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom he abuses to burn that flag.
TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN!
Amen to these beautiful words. They inspire me to get down on my knees to thank all the young men and women who gave their lives in so many wars and battles around the world so that we can live in a free world. And also to give thanks to our founding fathers who had a glorious vision of what they wanted for these United States. It’s a miracle that they believed strongly in and never gave up on. I pray one day to personally thank each one of them along with our first president. I think they were all looking down on us all this weekend and happy to see the colors in the skies all across the land and to realize their sacrifices were not in vain.
Great write up Tom! Beautiful write up from Michelle.