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Close your eyes
> Close your eyes
> > > > 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 carnage of war. He stands tough, 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 too 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. Amen." > > > > Prayer Wheel: When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say > a > > prayer for our U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan, and the ones facing > > deployment to Iraq at this very moment - AND all over this world. > > This can be very powerful. Just send this to all the people in your > address book. Do not stop the wheel, please. Of all the gifts you could > give a US Soldier, Prayer is the very best one. I have a good friend going to Afghanistan Sunday.. sighs I say a pray for him and each and everyone there now.. love ya Your friend and God Bless, Tina |
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