Remembering [By Fred Thompson.....]

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Remembering

By Fred Thompson

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I remember when I was a kid; one thing was clear to me. The more I learned about the rest of the world, the luckier I felt just having been born in America. The more I learned about America, the more I appreciated what those who came before us built; and how exceptional they were.

Not that there aren’t other great places to live, but America is unique. It’s not just that we are the freest and most prosperous county the world has ever seen. America has also freed more people than any other nation in history.

A lot of people have done their part to see that we are blessed with the advantages we enjoy — from hardworking pioneer mothers to the Framers of the Constitution. Memorial Day is coming up, though, and I’m thinking more about American soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice — those who died to protect our way of life and make the world safe for democracy.

There are some people, though, who don’t think that’s such a good idea. Some people even want to use Memorial Day to protest our military’s presence in Iraq. The irony is that their right to protest was paid for by people willing to risk everything to keep the forces of tyranny at bay — here as well as Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Korea, Burma, Vietnam, the Philippines, and dozens of other countries.

Over the years, a lot of people have tried to talk us out of feeling about America the way we do.

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[Josh Painter]

This is the third time this topic has been posted on FR. But that's all right. In my opinion, we can't be reminded enough of what a poor job the government schools have done in teaching the history of this nation and the high price that so many American heros have paid in their precious blood to "refresh the tree of liberty," as Thomas Jefferson put it.

Let's turn that around. We can begin by electing Fred Thompson the next President of the United States.



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[Huck]

Only a quarter of seniors knew the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine.

This one is the least of our worries.

[doug from upland]

MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE — http://youtube.com/watch?v=v55-zd8sI9w

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[kellynla]

Two points, for the past 60 years our liberal colleges and universities have been breeding grounds for Communist anti-American propaganda while we have been picking up the tab. It is no wonder that our colleges, universities, newspapers and television newsrooms today are inundated with anti-American and anti-military fanatics.
And secondly, home schooled children have been receiving higher grades because they have actually been learning their subjects more proficiently than those who are receiving their "education" in public schools whose teachers are the graduates of those same anti-American colleges and universities where ROTC and military recruiters are forbidden.

Lenin would be proud.