OUR FREEDOM

ASK AS MANY PEOPLE AROUND YOU TODAY.
WHAT'S TODAY?
I THINK YOU WILL BE SURPRISED TO HEAR DECEMBER 7.

I MEAN DON'T GET ME WRONG.
IF YOU ASK A CHILD THEY PROBABLY WILL NOT KNOW.

THAT TODAY IN 1941 PEARL HARBOR WAS ATTACKED!
AND OVER 2.400 AMERICANS INCLUDING 68 CIVILIANS WERE KILLED THAT DAY!
PLUS 1.178 INJURED.

THE BODIES OF 1.000 AMERICAN SAILORS ARE STILL TO THIS DAY IN THE
HULL OF THE U.S.S. ARIZONA.

THE NUMBERS GROW SO MUCH BIGGER.
AS YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE WIVES, HUSBAND'S,
DAUGHTERS, SONS , UNCLES, COUSINS, FRIENDS, AMERICANS!
THAT LOST SOMEONE THAT DAY. IT'S HUGE!

EVER SINCE I LEARNED IN SCHOOL ABOUT PEARL HARBOR I ALWAYS
HAD RESPECT FOR THAT DAY AND THE PEOPLE THAT LOST THEIR LIVES!

AND BEING IN NEW YORK ON 911 LOSING PEOPLE I KNEW.
ALL THE PEOPLE AROUND ME LOST FAMILY AND FRIENDS THAT DAY.
I SAW OR WENT TO FUNERALS EVERY DAY FOR MONTHS.

MAYBE THAT'S WHY IT HURTS ME SO MUCH WHEN I SEE PEOPLE WHO DON'T
KNOW THE IMPACT OF THIS DAY!

MY HEART GOES OUT TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LOST SOMEONE TODAY.
DECEMBER 7 1941........


WE ALL LOST SOMEONE THAT DAY!
RISE ABOVE YOU! AND NEVER FORGET OUR FREEDOM!!!!!!!!