Lord Dragon
04-07-2008, 16:11
On this two hundred thirty-second birthday of the United States of America, I would like to
share a few thoughts.
We are a Nation birthed in trauma. We separated from a country we loved but whose ruler did
not love us. We decided that it would be better to have no Kings or Queens govern us but for
us to govern ourselves. Nowhere in history had this been done before.
What was so precious that we would throw away years of history and tradition? Freedom and
the Liberties that go along with that freedom meant more to us than anything else. Patrick
Henry may have put it best when he said,
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me
liberty or give me death!"
Liberty and Freedom were so important to Patrick that he did not want to live if they were to
be denied. This is the basic fact of our birth. This was the radical concept that formed a
new idea, a new government of the people. Nowhere else in the world was there a county that
put down in writing that “All Men are Created Equal”. Until that time, nowhere else in the
world was there a Nation that trusted its own citizens to govern themselves.
Where did this spirit come from? It came from the masses of people that could not remain
with the countries and governments of their previous countries. Bill Murray summed this up
in a movie called Stripes. He said, “Our forefathers got kicked out of every decent country
in the world… We are the wretched refuse …”
From such humble beginnings we have become the model which the free world tries to emulate.
Have we made mistakes along the way? Simply, yes; all children growing make mistakes while
they learn but we have withstood the tests. We have been beaten upon and battered. We have
had our Liberties assaulted from both without and within. We have left our dead on foreign
soil protecting the rest of the world for what we find so dear.
We have come to the aid of those nations we call friends and paid the highest of prices. We
defended the world in the trenches of WWI, The Skies, Seas and Lands of WWII and in the Hot
and Cold WWIII of our battle with the Soviet Union. In each of these trials we came through.
In all trials we have endured, even though we may not have won all of them, we have
survived. All of this for a concept called freedom.
Freedom. What does it mean to each of us? It means we have the right to either love or
bitterly hate our country. It means we have the right to compose letters such as this.
Freedom means we can say what we like and our government cannot make any laws forbidding
this. Liberty means we have the right to work where we wish, live where we want to and
succeed or fail based only on our own abilities.
Weather you love or hate our country, remember that it is Our country. We the People are the
sole governing body. We, “the wretched refuse” have withstood everything that the world
could throw at us and we have prevailed.
Happy Birthday to the United States of America.
share a few thoughts.
We are a Nation birthed in trauma. We separated from a country we loved but whose ruler did
not love us. We decided that it would be better to have no Kings or Queens govern us but for
us to govern ourselves. Nowhere in history had this been done before.
What was so precious that we would throw away years of history and tradition? Freedom and
the Liberties that go along with that freedom meant more to us than anything else. Patrick
Henry may have put it best when he said,
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me
liberty or give me death!"
Liberty and Freedom were so important to Patrick that he did not want to live if they were to
be denied. This is the basic fact of our birth. This was the radical concept that formed a
new idea, a new government of the people. Nowhere else in the world was there a county that
put down in writing that “All Men are Created Equal”. Until that time, nowhere else in the
world was there a Nation that trusted its own citizens to govern themselves.
Where did this spirit come from? It came from the masses of people that could not remain
with the countries and governments of their previous countries. Bill Murray summed this up
in a movie called Stripes. He said, “Our forefathers got kicked out of every decent country
in the world… We are the wretched refuse …”
From such humble beginnings we have become the model which the free world tries to emulate.
Have we made mistakes along the way? Simply, yes; all children growing make mistakes while
they learn but we have withstood the tests. We have been beaten upon and battered. We have
had our Liberties assaulted from both without and within. We have left our dead on foreign
soil protecting the rest of the world for what we find so dear.
We have come to the aid of those nations we call friends and paid the highest of prices. We
defended the world in the trenches of WWI, The Skies, Seas and Lands of WWII and in the Hot
and Cold WWIII of our battle with the Soviet Union. In each of these trials we came through.
In all trials we have endured, even though we may not have won all of them, we have
survived. All of this for a concept called freedom.
Freedom. What does it mean to each of us? It means we have the right to either love or
bitterly hate our country. It means we have the right to compose letters such as this.
Freedom means we can say what we like and our government cannot make any laws forbidding
this. Liberty means we have the right to work where we wish, live where we want to and
succeed or fail based only on our own abilities.
Weather you love or hate our country, remember that it is Our country. We the People are the
sole governing body. We, “the wretched refuse” have withstood everything that the world
could throw at us and we have prevailed.
Happy Birthday to the United States of America.