DO YOU APPRECIATE YOUR FREEDOM? If you do,
read this...
SCENARIO:
He stands barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from
months of battle and emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his
family surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war. He stands tough,
with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us now in
anger and disgust and tells us this:
THE SOLDIER:
"I gave you a birthright of freedom
born in the Constitution and now your children graduate too illiterate
to read it. I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote
and you stay at home because it rains."
"I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and
you remain silent on critical issues, because it might be bad for business.
I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and it has
stolen democracy from the people."
REFLECTION:
It's the soldier not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press.
It's the soldier not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech.
It's the soldier not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate.
It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is
draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!!
PRAYER:
"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they
protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform
for us in our time of need. In Jesus Name We Pray, Amen."
Please stop for a moment and
say a prayer for our U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan, and the ones facing
deployment to Iraq at this very moment - AND all over this world.
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