Our American Freedom: National Identity

Thursday, July 2, 2009

National Identity

Do we have one? Is anyone proud to be American do we say or display it? Flag Day came and went not many flags. I went to Walmart not to participate in Obama's deepening recession. Has our historic and remarkable leader changed our standing in the world? Is there more or less pride in you own heart about being American? Do you see symbols of American pride on TV or in the Newsmedia or anything coming out of Hollywood? I will be honest I have more pride when flying my Gadsden Flag and my Confederate Battle Flag than the Stars and Stripes. The fact is the men and women in charge in America today hate the flag and all the sacrifices made for it and this nation. Even still when I see the Stars and Stripes rippling in the wind it makes me smile then the fact of the last sentence takes that smile away. So I fly the other flags knowing that men in this country fought off their oppressors under these banners and maybe one day we will be able to also. Obama campaigned on the pledge to bring America's standing in the world back again. I guess he does not care what we here in America think of where we stand.

A poem by Father Dennis O'Brien:

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to
demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves under the flag, and whose
coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.

If I may add my own finishing line:
It is the Second Amendment that keeps these rights and freedoms possible

Sunday June 14th was the 234th birthday of the army; no fanfare or parades did you even know, did you care?

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." Theodore Roosevelt
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. Gen. George S. Patton
I am an American Soldier. I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values. I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade. I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself. I am an expert and I am a professional. I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy the enemies of the United States of America in close combat. I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life. I am an American Soldier.
And when to Heaven's Gates he comes, to Saint Peter he will tell, "One more Marine reporting sir, I've served my time in Hell."
" NO MAN IS ENTITLED TO THE BLESSING OF FREEDOM UNLESS HE BE VIGILANT IN ITS PRESERVATION."
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier.