Duncan Idaho
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That's an easy one. The liberty owned by the most free nation on Earth was bought again and again by the citizen soldier at arms.
One would have had to both experience real freedom, and appreciated it, to truly understand. As Ala Dan said, "DUTY, HONOR, & COUNTRY!", says it all for those that "get it".
I can understand subjects* and other non-citizens that don't "get it" (they have never known freedom), but what really pisses me off are the Hollyweird types (and other assorted
s) that have built their fame and fortune upon freedom, yet choose only to vilify and defame those that bought it FOR THEM!!!! Sit down and ask yourself why it is that in the past 30+ years, only about 5 movies about the military haven't featured a main character that was:
A) Mentally deficient e.g. Private Pyle "Full Metal Jacket", Forrest Gump "Forrest Gump" etc...
B) Psychotic e.g. Private Pyle "Full Metal Jacket", any of the characters in any Oliver Stone movie, Or in "The Deer Hunter", "Apocalypse Now", etc. ad nauseam, ad infinitum...
C) Chemically dependent See Above
In any case, those who know the worth of a thing best, are those who PAID for it. And those who would seek to take it from them - whether through force, or through propagandist bull???? - would do best to think again.
Hence, all that seek to do so shall always fail.
* There was a time before socialism when even subjects did get it:
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
partial excerpt, Shakespeare's "Henry V" Act 4, Scene 3
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