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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457803" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>This Hero (An Ode To The American Military Veteran)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The American Military Veteran, a breed of hero, unparalleled in history, <br>Gave so much to so many-yet, somehow remains to them, a mystery.<br>What would possess an individual with so many rights guaranteed, <br>To leave it all behind, and gallantly defend liberty in a foreign land in need! ? ! <br>Why would they risk their lives for the sake of strangers-or, even care! ? ! <br>Perhaps they believe: 'injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' * </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Freedom is only ever free so long as there are patriots willing to die to preserve it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Hero' is a moniker oft-bandied about, but there are some who truly deserve it.<br>This hero simply acts, when and where action is needed, in spite of danger.<br>This hero acts with honor and integrity, for a Brother In Arms, or a stranger, <br>No matter the risk to him or herself-a selfless dedication that very few possess.<br>What this hero means to a free world, words could never properly express; <br>A simply 'thank you for your service' is all that most people can humbly tender, <br>All the while, never able to gather what drives a person to banish the word 'surrender'<br>From his/her vocabulary, and speak a language filled with acronyms and foreign jargon.<br>'Enemies of the Constitution', foreign or domestic, are not ones with which they will bargain-<br>For THIS, and this alone, is the one precept to which they pledge unwavering allegiance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are One Nation Under God, and they believe that He created, in His Omnipotence, <br>This 'More Perfect Union' so that we may be freedom's foremost defender.<br>This hero served, so that all may enjoy liberty and justice, in all their splendor, <br>Not just for today and tomorrow-but, so that our progeny may, for all perpetuity, <br>Live their lives under the blanket of the freedoms provided by truly selfless acuity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This hero deserves so much more from us than just our heart-felt appreciation, <br>He or she earned the right to your utmost respect, with tireless dedication<br>To principles that most seem to take for granted, except when reminded.<br>Take the time to truly get to know one of these heroes, if you are still blinded<br>By an ignorance that may be unintentional, yet very real still the same.<br>These words are meant to edify and inspire, not surely to assess any sort of blame-<br>Not only will you surely get to better know a remarkably heroic human being, <br>But perhaps learn to appreciate more, the very freedom you are now seeing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> *Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter From A Birmingham Jail </div><div style="margin:10px 0">-Maurice Harris,7 November 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Maurice+Harris">Maurice Harris</a><div class=q>
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