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In the eyes of a soldier....
I want you to close your eyes and
picture in your mind the soldier at Valley Forge, as he holds his
musket in his bloody hands.
He stands barefoot in the snow,
starved from lack of food, wounded from months of battle and
emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family
surrounded by nothing but death and the carnage of war.
He stands though, with fire in his
eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us now in anger and
disgust and tells us this.....
I gave you a birthright of freedom
born in the Constitution and now your children graduate to
illiterate to read it.
I fought in the snow barefoot to give
you the freedom to vote and you stay at home because it rains.
I left my family destitute to give you
the freedom of speech and you remain silent on critical issues,
because it might be bad for business.
I orphaned my children to give you a
government to serve you and it has stolen democracy from the people.
It’s the soldier not the reporter who
gives you the freedom of the press.
It’s the soldier not the poet who
gives you the freedom of speech.
It’s the soldier not the campus
organizer who allows you to demonstrate.
It’s the soldier who salutes the
flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is draped with the flag that
allows the protester to burn the flag!
“Lord, hold our troops in your loving
hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their
families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of
need. I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen” |
