Thinking About....Rethinking?

I very seldom quote or include any e-mail passages in my web blogs.
This one below makes a very significant impact on my 2003 thinking in regard to the price paid in sacrifice by our military in years past.
Today....the soldier....still sacrifices family and home....for us.
Just look at the TV screen as war looms ahead.....and thank God for our men and women who do their duty....as a soldier.


The following passage is from a sermon by John Hagee:

I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at
Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands. 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 though,
with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath.
He looks at us now, 2003, in anger and disgust and tells us this..

“.....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
given democracy to our land.

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!!!

Never Forget.....that I served my country......for Y O U!!!”
Lest we forget!