We Pledge Our Lives

I remember when I had a life that didn't include hours of waking moments spent in political discourse--re-learning the history of our nation's founding, reading the news, listening to talk radio, reading conservative blogs, writing emails and letters to elected officials, attending or planning to attend T.E.A. party events, sewing costumes for my fife & drum corps and for George & Martha Washington re-enactments, and now helping precinct chairs encourage others to vote Republican (as county secretary).

And then I remember those who gave up their normal lives, some very reluctantly, in order to make the necessary sacrifices to ensure that this country was born a free Republic. George and Martha Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and countless thousands of others pledged their lives to the cause of freedom, one that took many, many years to come to fruition.

That's one of the responsibilities of a free people--to make the sacrifices necessary to guard our liberties which have been bought so dearly by those who came before us. After all, we are only holding these blessings temporarily as guardians for our children and their children to enjoy.

This is no time to be selfish! It is vitally important that we pledge our lives to the cause of freedom or it will surely be taken from us forever.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." --Ronald Reagan