America — 9/11 — Freedom’s Price
Posted @ 5:42 pm - Filed under Sez Me
Each year on this day my first thought is of the families of those murdered that infamous day. I think of the kids who barely, or never knew their mom or dad or both. The spouses whose broken hearts have never been the same since the moment they learned their worst nightmare had come true. The parents who lost their children.
As a nation, a people, we responded as history has shown we would. America represents freedom to the world. We understand the price of our freedom.
I’ll never forget a pivotal moment in my learning curve as a very young man. A grizzled retired Army officer explained to me in no uncertain terms, the price of freedom.
He said nowhere in history was there a nation whose people enjoyed freedom, who hadn’t purchased that freedom with military victory. Americans know this, as we earned our original freedom as a nation through victory in the Revolutionary War. We all know the other times our freedom has been seriously challenged, and how we, in the end, prevailed. The common denominator? Military victory.
The freedom of 3,000 Americans was taken by force seven years ago today. Let’s come together as a country by remembering them and those they left behind, through our thoughts, deeds, and prayers. This day has to be such a painful reminder of their loss. A country coming together, focused on them, is what we can offer.
When it comes down to it, we can argue amongst ourselves, but outsiders beware. We will come together as a family.
Let’s do that today for those who lost so much. They’re part of the American family, and need us today.
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