A disturbing question for those who honor our servicemen

When we pay our respects and honor those servicemen who have given or risked there lives for their country it would seem that by extension we are also honoring and respecting the ideals of the country they have, or are, serving. In America we would hope those ideals would be Freedom, Liberty and democracy. We would also hope that since we refer to ourselves as,

"ONE NATION UNDER GOD,"

that we are also paying our respects to concepts such as compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, and respect for individuality.

Now it is no secret that I can be easily confused and wonder if anyone could help me with this nagging question,

"if our honor and respect for those who serve and die for us overseas consist only of wearing flag lapel pins or patches and waving flags on special occasions, yet we do little to nothing to insure that the ideals they have fought and died for are secured on the home front, are we honoring or dishonoring them?"

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will" Frederick Douglass, born a slave died FreeAdd to Technorati Favorites

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