A Tribute To Soldiers....

My humble tribute to my Brit friends and to all American soldiers past, present and future, on this 4th of July.
Peter

Read this A sad farewell to one of the family of the "Chosen men of the Jackets of Green"

It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who preserves the freedom of the press,

And it is the soldier, not the poet, who protects our freedom of speech,

It is the soldier, not the campus organiser, Who puts his life on the line, To give others the freedom to demonstrate,

And it is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, And whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who protects the protesters right To burn the flag.

Freedom is NEVER free!


Read this Last post for a great hero!

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of -
wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence.
Hov'ring thereI've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue, I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee No 412 Squadron, RCAF Killed 11 December 1941



"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf"

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Environmentalism The New Communism?

Oh this is beautiful. I hope it opens up a hornets nest. Here is someone (the President of the Czech Republic) equating envrironmentalism with communism. I would agree that only someone who has lived under the tyranny of communism can fully appreciate how valuable "freedom, democracy, the market economy, and prosperity" is.

Now I'm not calling Al Gore a communist, heaven forbid. He is just "a green capitalist" cashing in on this hysteria over global warming. After all, what is more "American" than scamming people and getting rich off it? The real danger to the world goes way beyond sad-sack Al Gore. Read this and think about it and let's talk about it.
Peter

Czech prez: Environmentalism is new communism.... (the) Biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity'.... the Czech leader said: "It becomes evident that while discussing climate we are not witnessing a clash of views about the environment, but a clash of views about human freedom." "As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants," said Klaus,responding to questions posed by the two lawmakers."Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism." http://globalwarminghoax.wordpress.com/2007/03/20/czech-prez-environmentalism-is-new-communism/ ____________________________________________________________________________________Never