The Patriot Post — Voice of Essential Liberty

David S. in Baton Rouge, LA
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 10:56 AM

Whenever anyone asks about the commitment the American people have to freedom and liberty, all anyone needs do is point to the grave sites around the Normandy beaches.

Freedom isn't free. What a trite sounding term. It doesn't seem to do our heroes justice. As if they all checked out at some register on high and paid a bill. Some of these men never came home. They lay on a blood-soaked beach on some island in the pacific. They are the reason we as a nation exist today. Some of them were scared boys, barely out of their teens, who bravely rose to the challenge and proved that they understood that a man's ultimate virtue is to sacrifice. God on high set this standard by the sacrifice of his Son two thousand years ago on Calvary.

And what do we today do? We forget them, or if we don't forget them, we don't remember them as we should. They gave their lives for us. The least we could do is to live our live remembering that sacrifice. Remembering to honor the trust they passed onto us with their dying breath:

"For God and Country, I fought for you."

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