Sitting in the drive way watching the fireworks, I began to “get” the significance of this Holiday. I began picturing the faces and the families of the Revolutionary Soldiers who gave everything for freedom. I realized that they didn’t have to do it, it would have been just as easy to continue under their oppression as it would have been to fight a long war and experience suffering that we, their descendants, can’t even imagine.
Today in the digital age we’re worlds apart from the world the fought in, we have freedom in so many ways that they never thought possible. Education, healthcare, religion. We can speak what we choose and go where we will all men are created equal in this world that they fought to build. All men have been given the rights to health and happiness and there are days when the biggest choice we need to make is how to spend them. How blessed are we that those men decided to fight, to die. For our, theirs and our children’s freedom.
May we always remember their gift to us, and thank God for their bravery.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
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