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Charlene Hilsabeck (Burton)
I'm sharing a Facebook blog posted by Ed Evans (Pastor of Christian Church Online, and Guild of Christ), a FB friend of mine. I hope it strikes a chord with you as it did with me; that you'll appreciate it as much as I do.
"Several military friends have written of their frustration that the America they fought for, lost good men and buddies in the fight for, is being perverted into an undisciplined, greedy, me-first debacle, and promises to destroy what we fought to preserve. Their words bring back memories of my own .....
"I recall being at MARTC Glenview, IL., seeing Marines come back from Vietnam duty in 1965-66, and feeling "left out," somehow guilty I'd not been there, and all the while knowing the depth of our true involvement since I'd been in Hawaii when 1st ANGLICO was flying in and out of Vietnam in 1963-64. Then-Capt. Marc Anthony Moore took us to the jungles and taught us 03 skills, which saved my ass when I finally got there in 1967-68, first tour. I remember thinking at the time that if I served, my sons would not have to. I was wrong. When they became of age they also "saw the elephant" in Iraq and so, like myself, have a blood investment in our freedoms and liberties. We wrote it on the flap of a C-ration box at Khe Sanh and stuck it on a stick in the red mud: "For those who fight for it, freedom has a flavor the protected never know." And had we more room there, we might have added, "And a blood anger at those who screw with it!"
"Perhaps the only thing that keeps the idiots in somewhat-check in American politics is the knowledge there are millions of veterans, armed, with nothing to lose but their lives, who will take it personally if they continue to screw up this great experiment called America. There are enough of us -- and there are already examples of civil disobedience making the airwaves -- who can make the Egyptian mobs look like a Maypole dance of fairies. And for many of us, the older we get, the more disgusted we become, the more frustrated, the more willing, before old age really does overtake us, to punt one last time. America, first, last and always. God bless this great nation and its people."
As a citizen with a vested interest (in military family members) in the freedom this nation's Constitution affords, I say, "Amen, Ed Evans! Amen!"
~Charlene Hilsabeck Burton
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