“Freedom is never free, it comes at a price!”
These are not new words, but old ones that are good to return to with each new Memorial Day. Philadelphia’s District Attorney,
R. Seth Williams, who serves in the Army Reserves, spoke these words today at the 2010 Memorial Day services at the Korean War Memorial at Penn’s Landing. When we pause to take in a Memorial Day ceremony, read the names and words engraved on war memorial stones; or even watch an HBO mini-series like
Band of Brothers, or
The Pacific, we can feel the weight of the cost of freedom in our guts:
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Young men with so much potential lost on the battlefield.
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Veterans forever changed for better of for worse.
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Fatherless children.
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Widows.
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Civilians caught in the crossfire.
And those are just the direct human costs.
But from the Revolutionary War to our present day conflicts abroad in Iraq and Afghanistan, the blood of almost a million-and-a-half of our young men and women have truly purchased life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for those of us in America and beyond. While some of these wars were true “no brainers,” even the dabatable armed conflicts have produced the fruit of freedom:
It’s also important to remember that freedom does not necessarily spell out an easier life, but it does provide hope – hope to build a better life, actually have some say in your destiny, and to dream and even pursue those dreams.
It’s easy to take these freedoms for granted – even a trivial one like blogging! But think about it – in N. Korea, Sudan, and Burma, you’re either not blogging due to lack of Internet access and inspiration, and if you are – you better be extremely careful what you write! Of course restricted “blogging rights” is somewhere around second-to-last on the list of these oppressed people’s problems.
Here are some Slideshares of images I took today of the Korean War Memorial and ceremonies at Penn’s Landing, and look at how close freedom came to being completely squeezed out of the Korean Peninsula. Click the view on slide share icon on the bottom-right, and then the Full icon at the bottom-right of the SlideShare for fullscreen.
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