“Why Freedom Isn’t Free”

“Why Freedom Isn’t Free”
By Evan Coleman, age 12
Yarmouth
Attending University of Maine Swim Camp

When a person has no fear of being different, they are free.  When a person can choose to be whom they want to be, they are free.  When a person can say what they believe and do what they believe, they are free. When a dream can become a reality, freedom is at work in their lives.

All these things, and more, define freedom for me. People in the United States of America think they are free, and they are right, but freedom comes at a price. It isn’t free. Many people have sacrificed themselves and their own freedom to make sure that we Americans are safe in our homes and free to choose to live out our dreams.  One cost is that we pay taxes to support our military so that they can fight to defend freedom in the world. Another cost is that people die to ensure freedom for us, and others.  This is the ultimate price to pay and we should honor those people and the cause they fight for.

Also, freedom comes with the responsibility to defend it and keep it alive for everyone, forever.  If nobody was there to defend freedom, others could take our freedom away.  Because I believe that freedom is the most important thing to us as Americans, we should do whatever it takes to keep strong and make it last forever.

The cost of freedom can take people’s lives and destroy families. And at that cost, thank goodness there are heroes who are willing to protect it for everybody.  It’s hard to grasp that some countries today fight and fight for even a small taste of freedom. The United States of America tries to bring freedom to those countries and that is also one of the costs we must pay.  It is not enough to keep freedom for us alone.  We must pay the price for free people everywhere.

“Freedom Isn’t Free”
By Brianna Gordon, age 14
Prentiss Plantation
Attending Colby College Basketball Camp

When we are young, we don’t often think about how many families are put through the pain and the feeling of losing someone close to them due to war, or the pain of having to tell someone that their son or daughter has just been killed due to the war in Iraq.

Something happened in the small town of Lee in the year of 2007. We lost a soldier, Sergeant Joel House. As months moved on more bad new began to come around in the small town of Lee. We lost another soldier, Sergeant Blair Emery.  Both boys had a goal in life. It was to make everyone in the country free, safe so that they could live without worrying. This opened my eyes to see that freedom isn’t free.  I didn’t think this could happen in such a small town.  The impact that it made on the small town of Lee and also the surrounding towns of Lee was huge  When these two men’s lives were lost it made me realize that it was more than just a war.  It was more than just a fight. It was for freedom, pride, strength, love for our country, our friends, and family.

All of the lives that we have taken for granted when men and women die in war to make everyone in our country safe.  As I thought about the situation more, I realized that these two young men risked their lives to make us able to live our lives protected.

It hurts to think that we have to lose lives to save lives.  This has become the cost of freedom.  They young men and women that serve our country protect us from harm’s way, but too often they have to pay the ultimate price to keep us safe.  They sacrifice their lives for us to make this world a better place to live in.  The two boys, Joel and Blair, will be remembered in my heart forever.  Thanks to all the soldiers for keeping me, my family, and friends safe.

“Why Freedom Is Not Free”
Alise Ranalli, age 17
Princeton
Attending University of Maine Summer Youth Music

Freedom is not free.  It is a dearly bought privilege, paid for with the time, toil, sweat, blood, tears, and even the very lives of the people who love it.  People all over the world make sacrifices for freedom and liberty; some sacrifices to gain and others to retain that freedom.  For, when freedom is won, the people who value it must continue to pay for it.  Freedom must be constantly defended, for in a moment all can be lost.

Our soldiers pay the heaviest price for our freedom.  Millions have left their homes, friends, and families to defend it. Many are wounded and hundreds of thousands have even paid the ultimate price by laying down their lives so that others may have liberty.  And, as Esther Forbes states in Johnny Tremain, “To die so young is more than merely dying: it is to lose so large a part of life.”  It is to give up the pleasures and pains that make life worth living.

Even those not in service pay dearly for freedom.  They must look longingly at the places left vacant by our servicemen and women.  They must pull the weight of our soldiers while they are absent.  And, they must fight for freedom by withstanding attacks from within, holding strong to a vision of a strong, unified nation.

Freedom, however expensive it may be, is well worth the price.  To quote Forbes further, “We give all we have—lives, property, safety, skills. . . . we fight, we die, for a simple thing.  Only that a man can stand up.”  To me, the ability to stand up, free from tyranny and terror, with all our God-given rights, is the meaning of freedom, and no price is too great to pay for it.  We must continue to fight for our freedom so we and our children might forever be free, and so we may set a shining example for the world to see a beacon of hope and an inspiration to all.


Why Freedom Isn’t Free”
Angel Andrews, age 8
Baileyville
Attending Greenland Point Conservation Camp

My name is Angel Mae Andrews. I am in second grade. I am eight years old.  I have one sister and two brothers.  Three of us are adopted. My mommy and daddy couldn’t have babies but after they got us three, Mommy found out she was pregnant with my baby brother.  I really want to go to camp because this is the first year I am old enough to go to camp.

I am sorry you lost your son, Joel, on June 23, 2007.  I have an Uncle Wayne serving in Iraq. He has a wife and twins living in Virginia.  They miss him very much.  My grammy prays for him.  Once Grammy cried when she knew he was leaving for Iraq.  So my nannie too knows how you feel.

I know freedom costs men’s lives like your son’s.  I know many people died so my family and I can be free.  I have two grampie’s who were in the military and they had lots of friends who died or got hurt.  Grampy says war is hard on the whole family.  He says every member of a family serves.

My grammie had a brother who died during the Vietnam War.  She said her mommy never got over it.  Nannie said she still misses her brother.

In our cemetaries they put flags on people’s graves who served our country.  I am glad they do that for the men who died.  It tells everyone what they did for our country.  My nannie says that men died for our freedom is a sacrifice.  In a way, it is kinda like Christ dying on the cross for us to go to Heaven.  Both things are a very big sacrifice for me.

I am a lucky girl to have a family like I have. I am lucky to have a God like I do.  I am lucky to know about your son.  Love, Angel Andrews.

“Why Freedom Isn’t Free”

Jennifer Gallant, age 13
Lubec
Attending Living Waters Bible Camp

The dictionary definition of freedom includes “free of entanglement, rid of.”  My definition is “being allowed to give my own opinion or do as I want without restriction as long as it does not in any way cause harm to another person.”  In the United States, this is possible to the greatest extent, but there are still places where people feel they cannot say or do as they want due to race, religion, or other factors.

In some countries, people who speak against the government currently in power face punishment.  People who fight for freedoms others take for granted face almost certain death.

Freedoms we take for granted in the United States like voting, allowing women to work, allowing people to run for public office, freedom of speech and the press are only a few of the freedoms we enjoy.

Freedom does not come without a price—a high price; not only blood, sweat, and tears, but sometimes by the loss of life.  Often, the United States sends men and women who are members of the Armed Forces to other countries to help the countrymen fight for their freedom.  Too many of our service people are killed this way.  Sometimes if they are not killed, they are seriously injured in some way.  Oftentimes, they injury is not a physical one but an emotional one. How do you treat something you cannot see?

Yes, freedom isn’t free; sometimes it comes with too high a price.

“Why Freedom Isn’t Free”
Dustin Gordon, age 11
Prentiss Plantation
Attending Living Waters Bible Camp

Thanks to all the soldiers that have fought to make our lives easier.  We take for granted the things that we do day to day:  the fun we have, the school, sports, fishing, hunting, etc.  We do not see the war from here because of all the brave men and women that enlisted to fight for freedom in our country.  It is sad that we have to lose lives to save lives, but that is what these men and women are risking for us.

This became so much more real, why freedom isn’t free June 23, 2007.  I remember the phone call that we lost our first Lee soldier, Sgt. Joel House.  Then just months later to hear the news of Sgt. Blair Emery.  Just about everyone around town knew both of them.  I never really thought it would be people that I had met and knew before, but I did.

I hope that it will never happen again in our small town.  The thought of the loss when you saw the families in their driveways.  I think we all know more than ever freedom isn’t free.

We need to thank every soldier.  I can’t imagine how rough the training or the fighting is.  The day to day struggles they have to protect their loved ones here in the United States.  How many lives these soldiers have touched trying to make the world a better place for everybody!

Nothing is free.  I looked on the Internet this morning to read some of the names listed.  I saw Joel and Blair listed.  The names go on and on.  They are all loved ones.  They have all sacrificed their lives for us.  We need to remember them!

“Why Freedom Isn’t Free”
Nick Kerr, age 15
Lakeville
Attending New England School of Broadcasting Summer Program, Husson College

My name is Nick Kerr. I’m 15 year old. I live in Lakeville and I am a freshman at Lee Academy.  I play a sport every season and love to hunt and fish.

Freedom isn’t free because all of these service men and women are leaving what they had to fight for the people of their country.  It costs families and friends the love and relationships that they had built over the years that they had spent with them.  I hadn’t really thought about this topic until it happened to the people we knew and then I started to think about it.  I learned that it can happen to even the smallest towns.

When something like this happens, the whole community feels the effects of the tragedy and the community comes together.  It is pretty bad that this day and age that we are still fighting for our freedom and it almost seems never ending.  Soldiers are forced to deal with the stresses that come with leaving a family such as leaving their children and families, family holidays, and personal lives.

Their lives are basically put on hold to fight for our country just like many soldiers before them did.  These soldiers are completely unselfish.  They put aside their own wants just to help do what they can do to help others achieve fantastic lives.  Joel House will always be remembered by his family, friends, and even the people who didn’t know him as a hero fighting for our freedom.

People like Joel are the people who allow us to be a free country and to these summer camps and be whatever we want to be.  The summer camp I applied to is at Husson College.  It is a camp to learn more about sport broadcasting.  This camp tours local television stations like WABI TV5 and tours the college campus.  I want to go to this camp to pursue my dream job as a sports broadcaster.

“Why Freedom Isn’t Free”
Hilde Bickford, age 15
Lee
Attending Forest Glen Bible Camp

The word “free” is defined in the Webster’s Dictionary as “not tied back or loose.”  Freedom is called a “right” or “privilege.”  It is the “state or quality of being free.”  Many Americans have lost their lives fighting for this privilege for our country.

The English colonists lived 3,000 miles away from their government in England.  When England was brought down to debt after the French and Indian War, they began the Sugar Act in 1764, taxing the colonists to help raise money so that they could pay back the debt.  The Stamp Act was placed on the colonists in 1765, which was another tax.  The colonists protested and said that this was taxation without representation.  They wanted to have a say concerning the new laws and why they were being taxed.

They again protested and much strife occurred between England and the colonists.  In 1770 the colonists revolted and they were ready to fight for their country’s freedom.  The Revolutionary War began in 1775.  The War went on for 8 years and ended with the signing of a peace treaty in 1783.  The colonists were granted their freedom!  But freedom does not come without a price. Many colonists died fighting for their freedom and freedom for their families.

In the Bible, we read the story of a sinless Jesus dying a horrible death on the cross for us and then raising again 3 days later.  Being no more than dreadful sinners, we now have a choice of where we will spend eternity after death.  By only asking forgiveness of sin and asking Jesus to come into our hearts to save us, we are given the gift of freedom from Hell and the ability to spend eternity in Heaven with Jesus.  What a great price paid for our undeserved freedom for Hell.

Many of our loved ones lives have been lost in the wars that have been fought and the war that is still being fought for our country’s freedom.  But why isn’t freedom free?  I believe that because of the love that our loved ones had for us and for our country, they wanted to fight and were willing to pay a price for our freedom.  And we will forever thank them for it!  

“Why Freedom Isn’t Free”
Heidi Bickford, age 16

Lee
Attending Forest Glen Bible Camp

I believe there are two kinds of freedom.  One is spiritual.  The other is physical.  One has been given to us long ago, and is free for the taking.  But for the other, many continue to pay the price every day.

I believe that the first type of freedom, spiritual freedom, is the foundation for all freedom.  The only way to truly explain spiritual freedom is to begin at the beginning.

When God, the Creator, formed the first man, He breathed into the breath of life. With this breath of life, I believe He instilled in each and every human the spirit of independence, the joy of being a free person.  When God created Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, His perfect plan was that they should be free and happy forever.  But, as most of us know, this divine plan was destroyed when Adam and Eve sinned.  Man has never again been a perfect being.  He has wanted his own way. Since that time, people have battled each other for supremacy.  Why?  Greed, pride, and hate have driven us to it. Because of sin, we are in spiritual bondage to these things and many more.

But God still loved us. Though we were doing wrong, He loved us.  Jesus, God’s Son, came to earth to free us from our bondage. He gave his life for us.  In dying for us, he broke the bars of sin, and presented to us the gift of freedom, if we would only believe in Him.  Now, spiritual freedom is free to us because Jesus Christ paid the price in full.

In a very similar way, humans have been in physical bondage throughout the ages.  Time and time again, evil rulers have enslaved people, and ruled them unjustly and selfishly.  Dictators told their subjects they had no rights, and any one who dared to stand up for their freedom could be tortured or slaughtered.  But from the beginning, God had given men the right to freedom, and no ruler could ever suppress that desire in men’s hearts.

The United States of America was begun by men and women what wanted not only spiritual freedom, but physical freedom as well, just a God had planned at Creation.  These people drew together documents such as the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.  These documents stated that is was wrong for a man’s freedom to be taken from him, and that in America, citizens believed that men were “endowed with certain unalienable rights”, and no threat against their liberty should be made.

But, alas!  The bitterness of sin still enslaves those who will not take God’s gift of freedom.  It attempts to seize our freedoms from us.  Enemies have attacked repeatedly.  Yet, America still stands today.  Why is she still alive and free?  Because, in order to protect our precious liberties, American citizens have laid down their lives in battle.  Brave and valiant soldiers have paid the price of freedom.  The ultimate price ever to be asked of anyone.  The price of human life.  For that, we can never thank them enough. For, by giving their lives, they have bought and paid for the sacred gift of physical freedom, and presented it to us.

I live freely today, spiritually, because of Jesus Christ. I live free today, physically, because of the brave hearts of U.S. soldiers and their families who were willing to give some much for their country.  I know freedom isn’t free.  I’m so thankful for America! What a nation she is!

“Long may our land be bright, with freedom’s Holy Light.  God bless us by Thy might, great God, our King!”

“Freedom Isn’t Free”
Rachel Kerr, age 13
Lakeville
Attending Colby College Basketball Camp

Hello, my name is Rachel Kerr and I am a 7th grade student from MJJH. I’m from Lakeville and I have a lot of interests and love to learn.  I would really love to have a chance to win a scholarship. It would really help out my parents.  We have a lot of activities we would like to do through the summer to better ourselves.  My parents always come up with the money to help us do what we would like to do, but my dad is in construction and it was a little slow this winter, so I would like to help out if I could.

I am planning on going to Colby College Basketball Camp. I really learn a lot there that helps me become a more experienced basketball player.  Every year I go with my friends and we have a great time.  I’m really looking forward to going this year. Having this scholarship would really help.

In the past, I didn’t really spend a lot of time thinking about why freedom isn’t free until we lost two of our soldiers in the past year.  Then I really paused and thought this isn’t right.

Freedom isn’t free because of all the brave women and men, sons and daughters, that gave up their lives so we can live ours.  All the husbands and wives who leave to go into war and leave their loved ones behind.  The people they leave behind can suffer a lot.  They are always missing their family members and wondering if they are alright.  A lot of families have lost loved ones in the war because they were fighting for us to be free.  While sometimes themselves they were not living and working in countries to be free themselves.

Many people have given up their own lives for us so we can be free, but to me that isn’t freedom.  If America has to do that to be free then it’s not really freedom.  Friends and families shouldn’t have to go through all that.  I know soldiers fight for our freedom for years past but sometimes I feel like they lose their own American freedom.  It isn’t right for them or the person who is serving in the armed forces.  Those people go through a lot and sometimes people don’t realize how tough it can really be.

If my dad or mom went into the war, it would be really hard.  They would miss Christmas, my birthday, and all those other great holidays that are really important to spend with your family.  It wouldn’t be the same without them.  Also I would always be wondering what they were doing and if they were doing alright.

I can’t even imagine what it’s like for those families out there.  It must be really tough at times.  So freedom isn’t really free.  I believe people just need to sit back and think how lucky they really are.  They need to think of what some families are going through and what freedom means to them.

Thank  you for making me think of what freedom means to me and what you and your family have given to us as a family and the United States.

“Why Freedom Isn’t Free’
Julia Andrews, age 9
Baileyville
Attending Greenland Point Conservation Camp

My name is Julia LeeAnn Andrews and I’m 9 years old. I’m in 4th grade. I have two brothers and one sister.  My mom didn’t think she could have babies, so she adopted me, my sister, and one of my brothers.  Then came along our youngest brother.  My sister is 8 and her name is Angel, then comes trouble.  He is 5 years old and his name is Elijah.  The youngest is Brewer. He is 2 years old.

A couple of years ago when I was in school my dog smelt a fire in our home, so she was just in time to stop my mom and went with her.  When Mom got back from picking up my brothers at their day care, there was a fire at my house.  So I got dismissed at the end of the school day and my mom told me and Angel what happened.  It destroyed my home and everything in it.

I’m so sorry you lost your son, Joel  One of my friends has a brother serving in Baghdad and he got very, very, very hurt and now he is in a hospital.  My two uncles serve now.  Their names are Uncle Adam and Uncle Wayne.  Uncle Wayne is now in Iraq.

I have two examples why freedom isn’t free.  First, our American freedom is paid by men’s blood and our Christian freedom is paid by Christ’s blood. I realize how high a price it cost for me to have my freedom, and I hope I never take it for granted.

Over 200 years, thousands and thousands of men and women have lost their lives. This makes me sad.  That’s why freedom isn’t free.

I want to thank you for this chance to write about our freedom.  It made me realize how important it is.


“Why Freedom Isn’t Free”
Desirae LaGasse, age 12
Lincoln
Attending Naturalist Camp at Bryant Pond

Did you know that everything has a price?  Even freedom isn’t free.  People lose their lives everyday fighting for freedom.  Some men and women have lost children, wives or husbands, sisters or brothers, or mothers or fathers who were fighting for OUR freedom.

Right now we are paying a lot of money for our troops to be in Iraq to help them become a democracy.  The price of that is we are losing some of our own men and women to help Iraq.  By going to Iraq they are leaving behind their family, jobs, and the lives that they know.

Here is another example from 1939 when the Holocaust began.  The Jews tried to escape from the concentration camps that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi soldiers had put them in.  They were going to escape to be free no matter what it would have cost them.  Most of them lost their lives for freedom.  In fact, millions of Jews lost their lives for freedom.  Other examples are that citizens in other countries don’t have the freedom like protesting, to pick their own leader, to speak against government, or even picking their own religion.

How lucky we are in America to have these choices. Everyone thinks that the war is so far away, but it is affecting our own hometown heroes.  That’s why I think FREEDOM ISN’T FREE.  God bless the families of Joel House and Blair Emery and all our other hometown heroes serving in the war.

“Why Freedom Isn’t Free”

Holli Bickford, age 11
Lee
Attending Forest Glen Bible Camp

“Memorial Day is a special day set aside to honor our servicemen and women who have lost their lives while serving in the military,” I read in the Bangor Daily News Mini Page.  I like to think of a song I know.  I think you know it, too.  It’s called, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”  In it, it says, “God has died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on.” Like Joel House, Blair Emery, and many others, they have died to make us free, having to pay their lives just so we can be free.

In Romans 6:20, it says, “For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.”  And, in Romans 6:22a, “But now being made free from sin, and become the servants of God.”  I think this means we are free from sin because God died.  Now, men die so we can be free.  The other verse I think is talking about we’re free from sin when we ask God to forgive us.

I’m so thankful for Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and John Adams for writing the Declaration of Independence so we can be free.  I think that we have an advantage to be a free nation, and that our founding fathers believed in Jesus Christ.  I’m thankful for all the soldiers that helped us get free. I hope and pray that the right president is picked this year.  There are so many things to be thankful for in a free nation.  Like, we can be Baptists or any other kind of church, and we don’t have to be brought to jail because we believe in Jesus Christ.  One of the songs I like is “Thanks to God.”  We can really be thankful for our nation.


“Why Freedom Isn’t Free”
Haley Bickford, age 13
Lee
Attending Forest Glen Bible Camp

America is called “The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave,” but I, as well as many other Americans, believe that it is “The Land of the Free because of the Brave.”

Where would we be without the thousands of men and women who have given their lives so that we could be free?  Joel House and Blair Emery are two young men from Lee that lost their lives last year fighting for our freedom, but they and many others are not the only ones who died to make us free.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth as a little baby and grew up sinless.  He performed many miracles much of His lifetime such as healing the sick, blind and deaf, raising the dead, and feeding five thousand people with only five loaves of bread and two small fishes.  He taught the people so many things.  He never did one single thing wrong, and He was always so kind to the people.  He died a horrible death on the cross so that we could be free from the bondage of sins and go to Heaven.  Then He rose again and is waiting in Heaven for those who receive him into their hearts and ask Him to save them. John 8:36 says, “If the Son (which is Jesus) therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”

President George Washington and President Abraham Lincoln were both Christians.  President George Washington believed that is was impossible to rightly govern this nation without the Bible and he was right.  Many Americans believe Abraham Lincoln was the best president, but he reason he was is because he governed America through God’s guidance.

If this nation would turn back to God, be a nation like it was and truly live the motto “In God We Trust,” we will continue to be a free nation.

“Why Freedom Isn’t Free”
Jeremiah Henderson, age 14
Dover-Foxcroft
Attending the University of Maine Soccer Camp

Freedom isn’t free.  Freedom comes with many high costs. Not just money wise, but in daily things in your life and possibly even your life.  You may think the United States has always had freedom. Well, it hasn’t.  The United States went through a period when it wasn’t its own country. It was ruled by Great Britain on a whole other continent.  When the colonists got tired of the high taxes, unfair ruling, and other such things, they revolted.  Over 4,435 colonists died so that then the United States could be its own country.  In 1783 this dream came true.

There is another war in which freedom was one of the major causes. The American Civil War was between the Union, free states, and the Confederacy, slave states.  In the South, they forced slaves to work on plantations under harsh conditions. If a slave didn’t do something right or didn’t do something. He got whipped and beaten. The nion (North) did not believe in slavery. On April 10, 1861 the Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter. This began the Civil War. This was one of the most horrible wars since brothers, fathers, uncles, etc. fought against one another. On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation which stated that all slaves in the South are free.  During this war, over 360,222 Union soldiers died for the slaves to be free and to keep this country together.

Death is not the only cost of freedom. In 1980, El Salvador erupted in civil war.  The government was forcing people into the military. At that time, my mom and uncle were 13 years old and in risk of getting forced into the military.  This wasn’t the only problem. My mom’s family could not express their opinions about the events that were happening in the country at that time because they may have been accused of being a terrorist.  My mom’s family decided to come to America where they were able to express their opinions without repercussions.  They had to leave behind friends, family, their house, and really good paying jobs for safety and freedom.  This was the price they had to pay for their freedom.

In conclusion, freedom is free but the price to keep it is not.  I am glad to live in a country where we have the freedom to speak, vote, have religion, and the right to bear arms.

“Freedom Isn’t Free!”
Jenna Cowan, age 14
Reed Plantation
Attending Colby College Basketball Camp

Most people like you or I take freedom for granted.  When we wake up to start our day, our biggest worry is if we’re late for school or if our make up doesn’t come out just right.  I guess I’m lucky to have little worries like those because I’ve seen first hand in our family and in the small community of Lee what freedom can cost.

The small town of Lee has experienced the price of freedom twice in the last year.  The loss of two young men just starting out their lives, in my opinion, is too high a price to pay.  Seeing how many of my friends and families were affected scares me because losing someone you love is a feeling that no one can prepare you for.

I have a friend that’s been to Iraq three times and is going to Afghanistan this coming summer.  I’m thinking, “Boy, I’m glad he made it back safe,” and wishing he wasn’t going again.  Not because I don’t believe in not serving my country, but the fact that I don’t want to face the hurt of losing someone else.

In December of 2005, just before Christmas, our family experienced the loss of a soldier on our own.  He was on his second tour in Iraq, 21 years old, and joined the Army right out of high school.  He was the gunner on the top of the Hum-Vee that came in contact with a roadside bomb (IED).

Hearing my family talk about how stupid the war is at times makes me wonder why we fight overseas.  My parents say things like “defending our country,” “standing up for our rights,” and “trying to make the world a better place”, but it doesn’t seem to be worth the price people in the armed forces have to pay.

In closing, I have many thoughts on freedom.  We have freedom everyday and take it for granted without ever thinking twice.  Freedom isn’t free. It’s because of those heroes who jeopardize their lives to make our country a better place!

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The Veterans Project

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