Here’s to wishing our beloved Nation, the mighty United States of America, a very Happy Birthday!
Today we Americans celebrate 230 years of hard won Freedom. We have, indeed, found Life, Liberty, and (for the most part) Happiness. Over the years though we have paid a terrible price for all we have and hold dear. Not so much in dollar terms, but in the Heavenly Currency of our Heroes’ blood. In this year of 2006 we find ourselves once again at war and we are reminded daily of the high cost of our Freedoms.
“The Bull”, Lady Beth, and all of our little Herd wish all of you a happy Independence Day. We also would ask you to - regardless of your Faith - pray for those giving their time and their very Life’s Blood, not for some abstract cause, but for the most Noble of Causes. Freedom - for all of us, and for the people oppressed by tyrants and terrorist worldwide.
Just like they did in the Lexington Green on April 19th, 1775, for the following eight years, and for the two centuries since, Americans have willingly fought and died for Freedom. Let us not forget that we, too, once wore the yoke of Tyranny. We threw it off at great cost. Proving that Freedom is a worthy Cause cost us much more during the years from 1861 to 1865. Liberty was tried by fire - and was proved True. In 1917 we took that Truth to Europe. Again in 1941 we went to Europe, and to the Pacific, to fight for the Freedom of Mankind. Though those wars were won, the Fight for Liberty continued in Korea, Vietnam, the long Cold War, Kuwait, and today in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. Forever Faithful, our Heroes continue to protect us and our Constitution from “All enemies, both Foreign and Domestic”. The Founding Fathers knew one Truth about the fight for Liberty most of us have long forgotten:
It is a fight that will never end.
Our Armed Forces are our strong arms. However, what good are the arms without a strong spine to support them? Dear Readers, that “spine” is us. It is our duty, as American Citizens, to support our soldiers and sailors in any endeavor that we have sent them to accomplish. Do not forget, it was indeed We the People that sent those young men and women into harm’s way. The buck stops not with some politician, but with us - the Voters. We placed every one of those politicians in office to make these decisions. The burden is ours.
It is a burden I accept.
Frankly, I feel proud of the accomplishments so far and I am confident of Victory in this current war. Let us not forget that though we have been in Iran for some 3+ years, it took us eight (8) years of war and then several more afterwards to set our own house in order. We paid a much higher price in blood as well. Freedom, for anyone, is worth the struggle. Always. Those that complain so loudly are those that never consider where they got the Right to do so, where the Right to freely assemble with those of like mind comes from, or who continues to protect those Rights - again - from “All enemies, both Foreign and Domestic”.
No, I am not discouraged.
I am Confident.
I am Proud.
I am Free.
I am an American, and thankful for it!
Raising a glass to the Land of the Free on her Birthday,
Bull, out. 
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