Oh say, can you see?

FREEDOM.  What does it mean?  Is it worth our very lives?  The lives of those serving in the Armed Forces?

What about the lives that were given over 200 years ago?  Did they think the very freedom they were fighting for was worth their futures?

"yes" is my whispered, reverent answer.

They believed in freedom.  They recognized freedom as the answer.


Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

I hear that Francis Scott Key wrote those lyrics while imprisoned in a ships belly, probably thinking that his life was nearing it's end.

They don't sound like the words of a man who believed his fight in vain.

Freedom is the answer for poverty, homelessness, social issues, religious oppression, for all our needs as a nation. Those early freedom fighters recognized the Creator and the freedom He desired for us, "It was for freedom that He set us free." Gal 5:1

Those men saw their Savior, the one who died for their freedom, and they followed his very example.

I love this nation, it IS the best one on the planet.

America represents freedom, opportunity still lies here, waiting, waiting, waiting for us to rise up and take it.

Businesses are waiting to be founded, careers launched, technology developed, books written, it is all ours for the taking, as long as freedom prevails.

We can become all we are intended to be in America, if we only utilize the freedom that has been so preciously purchased for us.