Was it that long ago that America fought for its independence and freedom?  Yeah; it’s been a little over 200 years and apparently it has been long enough for a lot of people to forget how valuable freedom is

Most American citizens do not know what it is like to live in a country that is not free and maybe that’s part of the problem.  Many of us have truly begun to take our liberties for granted.

Think of all the men and women that have served in the armed forces for the last couple of hundred years.  Think of how many have given their lives so that we may remain free.  Are their lives not worth something?

We see pictures of the atrocities that man imposes upon other men and we have heard horror stories of men enslaving others.  Sometimes we hear about societies inflicting great genocides to wipe out entire populations of countries but we have been spared these horrors.

Our fighting men and women have sacrificed and given their lives so that we have not had to endure the horrors of tyranny.  Yet; there are many people that want to overturn our way of life!  For what?!

Is it not sad---that today politicians and liberals place so little value on our freedom and what it has cost that they are willing to give away citizenship in the hopes of  future votes?

Politicians and liberals are contemplating the action to grant amnesty to those people that have INVADED our country and have violated our laws.  Most politicians and Liberals call these people “illegal aliens” to be politically correct.  When did it become fashionable to break the laws of the United States Constitution??

Citizenship is not something that should be given away like a prize in a box of cracker jacks!!  Too many people have died and sacrificed to make this country what it is and citizenship is something that is valuable and earned!

It almost seems like we are playing a weird kind of Hide-N-Seek where if you get into the United States you are free and on home base.  Once you are on home base then you are entitled to all the privileges of citizenship; this is wrong! 

Why should people be able to slink into our country in the cover of night and be granted immediate amnesty?  What about those people who are trying to become citizens and are going through the formalities to do it legally?

Do you remember when saying the Pledge of Allegiance meant something?  Do you remember when you got chills running up your spine when you heard the Star Spangled Banner?  If you do not have some memory of this; then our armed forces are truly dying in vain!

My family has lost many cousins, uncles and grandparents in the World Wars and the recent conflicts.  It saddens me to think that their lives were given for a Nation whose politicians are willing to give it away!

Just as our education system is dummying down true education; we seem to be diluting the meaning and value of citizenship!