by Perry 7 Replies latest jw friends
Cheers to all the fallen soldiers and the sacrifice their families have made so that we can be free!
When you look in your rear view mirror today, remember and be thankful that the freedom you enjoy today was paid for by someone you likely didn't even know yesterday.
God bless freedom!
It's true, Perry. It's an ugly truth that people paid with their lives in unwanted wars. People with their best, most noble beliefs and hopes for their fellow countrymen.
it's really a pathetic world. We should be much further along as a race.
it's really a pathetic world. We should be much further along as a race.
True. But, freedom isn't free, and never will be. Sadly, many have no idea of this concept, much less what Memorial Day is even for.
I agree, stillin - the progress is discouraging re/wars. It's an unimaginable sacrifice that's been paid for freedom.
"They shall not grow weary as we who are left grow weary
they shall not grow old as we who are left grow old.
At the rising of the sun and the setting of the sun we shall remember them."
ANZAC Ode.
God bless freedom.
I was just thinking how utterly stupid that saying is. God has done absolutely nothing to advance freedom for mankind. It is only through the blood spilt by courageous MEN and WOMEN that we have been able to enjoy any sort of freedom up until now. God bless freedom totally ignores the sacrifices of all those happily non religious people who have given their lives for a just cause and a better world.
Cheers to all the fallen soldiers and the sacrifice their families have made so that we can be free! - couldn't agree more, Perry.
In fact, not just the US, soldiers from across the Western world have put their lives, health, time and effort on the line so that citizens living in Western countries can live good lives and enjoy Western freedoms - freedoms we may sometimes take for granted but are unheard of in other countries.
God bless freedom!
Satan bless freedom!
Dawkins bless freedom!
