Freedom's Gift
The world’s a different place today
Than years ago when ocean’s span
Brought men together to lead the way
To stand up to a tyrant’s hand,
We hold these truths, began the words
That changed the world forevermore,
Declaring before the king and world
That liberty would come to shore
Shedding shackles wrought from laws
And rights as deemed from king to man,
Endowed, instead, in Creator’s cause
Inalienable rights would rule the land
Countless tear and blood has shed
To bring this dream into the light
For freedom’s gift on which we tread
Demands a constant, vigil fight
Its freedom’s peril we invoke
When “us” and “them’s” between the shores,
Complacency still yields the yoke
Courageous wings allow to soar
For once in time, did men unite
For causes bigger than their day
So risked the noose and dared to fight
And paid the price they had to pay
That reasonable men may disagree
On ways in which to run the state
This land the freest of the free
As law, not guns decide our fate
Ancestral lines to us run deep
Though carried not by blood nor grade
Our founding fathers sowed the seed
Intent to leave a nation made
Our birthright neither of gold nor years
But purple mountains majesty
Old Glory waves to quell our fears
With courage cloaked in modesty
Conceived in liberty, raised to know
That sacrosanct, freedom’s assured
If we protect from friend and foe,
Precious liberties long ago secured
- Tina Ann
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Words of Wisdom
"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."
- Cicero
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't
pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected,
and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years
telling our children and our children's children what it was once like when men
were free"
- Ronald Reagan
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do
for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens
of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what
together we can do for the freedom of man."
- John F Kennedy
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