Enjoy your Freedom and God Bless Our Troops.

 watched the flag pass by one day. 
> It fluttered in the breeze. 
> 
> 
> A young Marine saluted it, 
> And then he stood at ease. 
> 
> 
> I looked at him in uniform; 
> so young, so tall, so proud. 
> With hair cut square and eyes alert, 
> he'd stand out in any crowd. 
> 
> 
> I thought how many men like him 
> had fallen through the years. 
> How many died on foreign soil; 
> how many mothers' tears? 
> 
> 
> How many pilots' planes shot down? 
> How many died at sea? 
> How many foxholes were soldiers' graves? 
> NO, FREEDOM ISN'T FREE ! 
> 
> 
> I heard the sound of Taps one night, 
> when everything was still. 
> I listened to the bugler play 
> And felt a sudden chill. 
> 
> 
> I wondered just how many times 
> That Taps had meant 'Amen.' 
> When a flag had draped a coffin 
> of a brother or a friend. 
> 
> 
> I thought of all the children, 
> of the mothers and the wives, 
> of fathers, sons and husbands 
> With interrupted lives. 
> 
> 
> I thought about a graveyard 
> At the bottom of the sea. 
> Of unmarked graves in Arlington . 
> NO FREEDOM ISN'T FREE 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE 
> FLAG, 
> OF THE UNITED 
> STATES OF AMERICA , 
> 
> 
> AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR 
> WHICH IT STANDS, 
> ONE 
> NATION UNDER GOD, 
> INDIVISIBLE, 
> WITH LIBERTY 
> AND JUSTICE FOR ALL! 
> 
> 
> KEEP IT LIT!! KEEP IT LIT! 
> For all of our other military personnel, where ever they
> may be. 
> Please 
> Support all of the troops defending our Country. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> And God Bless our Military 
> who are protecting our Country for our Freedom. 
> Thanks to them, and their sacrifices, we can celebrate the
> 4th of July. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> We must never forget who gets the credit for the
> freedoms we have, 
> of which we should be eternally grateful. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Enjoy Your Freedom 
> and 
> God Bless Our Troops. 
> 
> 
> When you receive this, 
> please stop for a moment 
> and say a prayer for our servicemen. 
> 
> Of all the gifts you could give a U.S. Soldier, prayer is
> the very best one.