A Soldiers voice from the past...

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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:55:03 -0500

The following passage is from a sermon by a local minister:

 

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, the cold wind whipping thru the rags that cover him, 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 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 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 you have allowed it to legislate away your freedoms, to steal democracy from the people by chipping away at the true meaning of the constitution. 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!!! Its the soldier that swore to defend the constitution, from enemies foreign AND domestic."

 

 

"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."

 

 

Please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our U.S. troops all over this world.

Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Prayer is the very best one.

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AMEN

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I'm not a Christian, but may the "one", bless them, and keep them safe.