Thanks to Kevin Fischer for this story...
This holiday, when you think it might be too hot or sticky, and the possibility of rain might ruin some of your plans, and you’re disgusted with $3 gas, and those damn Brewers lost again, and you wish you could have had off July 3rd, 4th and 5th, and the kids are screaming, and you’re out of ice, and you lost a sausage in the coals, etc., etc;…………..click on this link….. and remember. Have a great Independence Day.
watch this videoUPDATE: VIDEO WORKS NOW!!!
One of my favorite passages from Zell Miller's RNC speech sets the theme for today's July 4th news and notes:
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.
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I clicked on the link but couldn't get it to work.
However, this post is great, and the part about soldiers is the absolute truth! Thanks for that, and I hope you have a glorious Fourth of July too! :)
try video again, think I fixed it...thanks gayle
I would not argue with Zell's first two paragraphs here, especially that our soldiers "preserve" our freedoms.
But I would differ with him beyond that. Our soldiers have protected our freedom and rights from external attack. No doubt about that. But they have not given us freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Our founding fathers in the the Bill of Rights gave us freedom of press and freedom of speech. And while it is the duty of our military to protect those freedoms from foreign attack, it is the duty of the reporter and the poet and each of us citizens to preserve our freedoms of speech and press by defending them from internal attack.
there is some truth to that, but I still believe that the military do a lot more to preserve our rights and protect us than some hippie poet from Berkley
Scorpion says---
The senators from Massachusetts are paired together for their real
"K"nowledge and expertise.It made me remember that "K" stands for and
is the symbol for strike-out in baseball also.Talk about two "K"men
in positions of influence who strike-out so much more than their
colleagues when they try to get a hit.
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