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Thursday
September 2010
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Community Blogs
Freedom is not 'Free'
However each of us voted, we all have to back him for the next four years. That is what makes America so great: We get a chance to vote, and the candidate with most votes is president. Not backing the president-elect would be detrimental to all citizens of United States.
Especially before he is sworn in and becomes the new commander in chief of the United States.
This blogger is deeply concerned about Barack Obama’s loyalty to America. His refusal to wear a flag lapel pin, but more so his refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.
Barack as reported did not have a stable family relationship as a youth and not above average wealth, yet he attended Columbia University and Yale University.
He now lives in a home reportedly worth $1.6 million!
Does he not realize how this was possible? Only in the United States>
How could this be possible? Many lives were lost fighting for our freedom.
This freedom did not come “free.”
This blogger would like to share just a few happenings that shaped his respect for the flag and his love of the USA, the freedoms he is thankful for, as so many lives were lost to maintain our freedoms of today.
When this blogger was about 6 years old, during World War II, my mom, dad, myself and two younger brothers walked to a school meeting in the town of Oak Creek. The family auto stayed at home.
Gasoline was rationed. Dad received gas ration stamps to take car to work only. If you used all your stamps for the month, you could not get gas from any station.
I attended Hillside Grade School. If Mrs. Klevenow - our only teacher for all eight grades - chose you to put up the U.S. flag for that day, it was an honor!
“Remember, don’t let the flag touch the ground,” we were reminded! On Veterans Day, the whole school stood at attention, facing the east, for one minute to remember our soldiers.
Later in life I remember how things were in Russia: no freedom at all. If a store received a shipment of Levi jeans, for example, lines were long only to find out they may have sold out before you got to the front. Grocery stores had little on shelves; many did not have any money to buy anyway.
This is just a small example of freedom compared to no freedom!
I am proud to be an American.
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