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Is Freedom
Really Free?


By Seth Dixon
12-01-01

I take it for granted every day. I think we all do. Most of my life I haven't thought twice about it. Freedom. Our most precious gift is freedom. There has been much conflict over this little word. It is so much more than just a word. The question is, is freedom really free?

No, it isn't. There has been so much bloodshed over being free. From the start of the Revolutionary War we as America have paid a price for it. Men who joined the colonial cause risked from their lives, their farms, and their family's lives. Also, men starved in Valley Forge as the icy wind tore at their exposed limbs. They sat and froze while they could be home with their wives and children. They paid a big price and pulled through.

During D-Day on Omaha Beach thousands of Americans lost their lives trying to free the people of Europe from the Nazis. In Kuwait in 1991, U.S. solders risked their lives to free that country from an Iraqi takeover. The current War on Terrorism has lead our troops into battle to defend our way of life and our freedom.

Even before America, since the beginning of recorded history, freedom has been an issue. Men always wanted power over others. The only way the oppressed could have freedom is to fight for it. This often meant paying for it with your own life.

Freedom really isn't free, because so many people want to take it away and others retaliate and fight to keep it. Why do we put up a fight?

They're trying to take away something that isn't theirs. Nobody gave freedom to us; it was ours from the beginning. No one has the right to tell us what to do within reason, from a soldier with an M-16 to a politician with a brief case. It's a God given right. Even now politicians are trying to take away freedom.

Freedom isn't free; people should know that by now. I would give up my life for freedom. September eleventh proved that we are continuing to pay the price today.



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