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Everett Day, WWI
Americans have fought in many wars since the Revolution and freedom has exacted a high price. Many lives have been given, much blood shed, many hearts broken down through the years. To me, the most incomprehensible and divisive of all the wars was the Civil War. I am not convinced that it was inevitable. It tore our country apart and the wounds are still visible. I ask myself why reasonable men, Americans, could not sit down and come to an agreement. Why could not Mr. Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, have sat down together at a table, talked, discussed, tried to see things through the other person’s eyes, and prevented the loss of thousands of American lives?
As America sets aside a special day tomorrow to honor veterans of all the wars from Lexington to the present day, I conclude that the best way I can say thank you to the men and women who have given all is to be ever watchful of that wonderful thing called freedom. Sometimes the danger to our liberty comes in insidious ways under the guise of “keeping us safe”. Sometimes, the threats are from direct, violent sources. As an American, I should be aware and alert. I should know what the Constitution says and defend it. I can say thank you best by honoring those who have gone before and by being sure our freedoms in this blessed Nation stand intact for those who will come after.
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