Sunday, October 12, 2008

One Nation

There is a price that great men have paid for what is truly right. That's part of what made them great. It's not having to pay the ultimate price, but the willingness to give that much to a cause so important. Many people talk about dying for freedom. They don't see the horrors of what death can be, and how it can come. They are insulated in a world where they buy prepackaged meats in a supermarket display case, complete with blood absorbing maxi-pad.

There are so many brave ones who are dying everyday, not knowing that the freedom they wish to leave us here at home doesn't exist anymore. The reason they don't die in vain is because their hearts, at that final moment, are pure and immeasurably generous. We are all so lucky for them to have graced us with their tribute to our dreams, and the sacrifice of their dreams for us.

To honor them it is our responsibility to restore that which they died for, because it can only be done here, on this land, and not on foreign soil. We hold the key, the key to restoring this land to her former splendor, to the land that the Founding Fathers built up from their dreams. The words of those men, written by men who acknowledged their faults and frailties, but were strong enough not to be ashamed, and not so arrogant to make stupid choices, were the words of true genius and were based on a foundation of stone.

We have fallen very far from where they left us and we need to restore those words, their vision, to their original meaning, for we are not so great as those men were, but we must live up to their hope for us. It is a great duty to uphold. It is one we must humbly respect.

As we once again we find ourselves in tumultuous times rife with snap anger and blind hatred we should remember that regardless of the turnout of this election, we are still one nation.

One nation.