Hello Friends, I just wanted to wish you the best of holidays this 4th of July weekend! I'm so glad to be able to express my gratitude for all the freedoms we still enjoy in the US. I am blessed beyond measure and I am thankful for those who have come and gone before me. Everyone who values freedom and the ideal of human rights and individual expression have something to be thankful for. You know that when a society is free and people are fighting to get in...there is something within the human spirit that wants self determination and a right to express itself. I think we see this over and over in different societies & sometimes people pay a price for having this desire. We saw it clearly in the recent Iranian demonstrations where thousands of people took to the streets day after day until the military began their slaughter of these freedom seekers. We saw it in Beijing years back. Is it any wonder why people still want to come to the US? I heard a quote a little while back that expresses this so well... "You can judge a country by the people who want to come into it & will do whatever it takes to get there, & you can also judge a country by the walls and barbed wire it has put up to keep it's people within it's borders."
Happy July 4th!!!! |