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Some 230 years ago, a group of men committed treason against England against tyranny. This tradition has kept America safe and free for the last 230 years.
While many may not support President Bush for his war in Iraq, he is still our elected president and I have no choice but to support him. I didn't like President Bill Clinton, but I still supported him.
While we sit back here and argue over this war in Iraq, there are soldiers there defending our rights. I salute each and every one of them. I salute our founding fathers and their efforts to free us from England.
I salute all my military brethren who have fought and died in the preservation of our Constitution. I even salute my brethren who died on both sides of the Civil War. Both Northern and Southern.
I salute all men and women who have served to protect our rights to slander and condemn each other. And that is what I see going on in America today.
But on this day, July 4, 2006 I ask that each one of us put aside our petty differences and remember those men and women who have served, fought, and died to preserve our Constitution. Thank God for each and every one of you, from 1776 down to 2006!
Semper Fi
USMC 1981-1987
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . . we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us. . .that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. . . that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. . . and that government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people. . . shall not perish from the earth.
Preamble, President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
While many may not support President Bush for his war in Iraq, he is still our elected president and I have no choice but to support him. I didn't like President Bill Clinton, but I still supported him.
While we sit back here and argue over this war in Iraq, there are soldiers there defending our rights. I salute each and every one of them. I salute our founding fathers and their efforts to free us from England.
I salute all my military brethren who have fought and died in the preservation of our Constitution. I even salute my brethren who died on both sides of the Civil War. Both Northern and Southern.
I salute all men and women who have served to protect our rights to slander and condemn each other. And that is what I see going on in America today.
But on this day, July 4, 2006 I ask that each one of us put aside our petty differences and remember those men and women who have served, fought, and died to preserve our Constitution. Thank God for each and every one of you, from 1776 down to 2006!
Semper Fi
USMC 1981-1987
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . . we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us. . .that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. . . that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. . . and that government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people. . . shall not perish from the earth.
Preamble, President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
