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Liberty First, Security Second

doc, aka Rich Wrote: Oct 15, 2009 10:15 AM

Good essay. It's important to understand the history of this nation and its people. It's sad to reflect how we've lost much of the unique character which built this country (independent, industrious, moral) ... just get a load of some of the comments. But look at those who serve our cities, counties, states, and nation in uniform, and you'll see a reflection of the historic character of Americans who built this nation. As a group, they unfortunately demonstrate a telling difference in attitudes from the general population.

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Liberty First, Security Second

We learned haunting and currently relevant facts about our nation’s history while spending an early fall week in Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. For those who founded this nation, opportunity trumped concern for personal safety. It staggers the imagination to think of people leaving the security of their familiar, comfortable homeland to build a new life for themselves in a strange and primitive land about which they knew almost nothing. Just how harsh and forbidding the challenges of this endeavor would turn out to be is measured by the fact that by 1610, three years after the Jamestown settlement’s founding, only 60...

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