The planet has been around as long as God has seen fit, and nations have come and gone. Yet, in a little over 400 years, since the first settlement, we’re able to fly at several times the speed of sound, walk on the moon, land a few robots on Mars, build a huge space station and even cap a massive oil leak on the ocean thousands of feet deep.
Our nation is fantastic beyond belief because God gave us Freedom. I know other countries and people contributed over history’s time-line to our accomplishments of the day – the point is, America’s Freedom launched us light years ahead of the rest of the planet and, by default, we dragged the rest of, or most of, the planet with us. Good and evil has come from the blessings of freedom and technology, we hold our freedoms because we have our means to defend ourselves from tyranny; others use that point of the gun to oppress and slaughter its people. Again America’s greatness has intervened on behalf of many countries’ plea for help or with the obstruction of genocidal forces.
Freedom is kept by the blood of our families, paid for in blood by our ancestors.
An amazing thing about our military is that, no matter what their job may be, it’s a unit that functions as one. All the military branches combined make up the world’s most elite fighting force, and disaster relief providers on the planet. By default that makes us the best in the Universe as well. Some of our ships have hospitals better equipped than entire nations. We’re the first responders to the planet’s natural and unnatural disasters.
Always be proud of our Nation, give thanks to God for what he has given us, never forget 1776, and freedom is not free.
Image: First Commandant of the Marine Corps Samuel Nicholas; author: USMC; public domain
