[Sam Cree]

Thanks for the post CFW and the ping, g'nad. It's inspiring as well as sobering. Hebert knows what he was fighting for, figures freedom is precious and worth a heavy price, even including horror and death. Hebert and guys like him have my greatest admiration and gratitude, for their country and its ideals, they met terrific fear and danger head on, and did not give way.

I know I mentioned to you, g'nad, that Dad was a combat soldier in that war.

"Freedom is the most blessed thing God ever gave man"

The United States is the only country ever founded specifically on the basis of freedom, individual freedom, the only kind that means anything. That's why, IMO, the United States, in spite of its blunders and misfires, is the most precious country ever to exist.

Yet I find this attitude about the founding of our country pretty rare, even among conservatives. No one seems to believe it any more.

[ksen]

May God bless and keep Hebert and give him the peace that passes all understanding.

Thanks for the pings....