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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: D. Long who wrote (190212)10/9/2001 11:29:48 AM
From: DOUG H   of 769667
 
Let's not throw out our liberties for the sake of security from terrorism.

I've been thinking about this subject since yesterday and believe I came to a resolution last night while watching the History Channel's story about the flag raising on Iwo Jima.

"The bodies lay everywhere. Young boys who had never been to a funeral became accustomed to rolling another dead buddy aside. Kids full of life worked on burial duty unloading bodies from trucks stacked with death.

Mothers back home would tear open the ominous telegrams with trembling fingers. The survivors would remember sailing away and seeing the rows and rows of white crosses and stars of Davids. Almost seven thousand."

As I watched the veterans retell their stories and the horror they live with still today, unable to cast aside visions they would give anything to forget, I became reaquainted with the price of freedom.

This however, is a price paid by someone else. I did not have to crawl thru the caves or have a body part blown off to preserve freedom, hell, I was'nt even born then. But the young men of the time, 18-20 years old did. They did so both at the request of the Commander in Chief but more so by a calling they felt in their hearts that said "there are so things worth dying for".

So they gave their lives then so that I may enjoy freedom today. Now we have asked our countries young men to go abroad and fight an enemy willing to crash loaded planes into thousands of innocents. Trying to obtain cropdusting planes so they can spray biological agents over millions of our women and children. Trying to obtain nuclear weapons so they can blow up millions of the same in one fell swoop.

So I contemplate, what am I willing to give?

For me, it's easy. There is no second thought about it.

Freedom ain't free.

These rights we cling to so dearly have been paid for with human lives. Today we find ourselves having to give back a little in order to preserve the ability to exercize thses rights. I'm willing. It's the least I could do.

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