A little 'wake up call' perhaps??
The following passage is from a sermon by John Hagee:
I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at
Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands. He stands barefoot
in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from months of battle and
emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family surrounded
by nothing but death and carnage of war.
He stands though, with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks
at us now in anger and disgust and tells us this... I gave you a birthright
of freedom born in the Constitution and now your children graduate too
illiterate to read it.
I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote and you stay at home because it rains.
I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and you
remain silent on critical issues, because it might be bad for business.
I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and it
has stolen democracy from the people.
It's the soldier not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the
press.
It's the soldier not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech.
It's the soldier not the campus organizer who allows you to
demonstrate.
It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin
is draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!!
"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they
protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they
perform for us in our time of need. I ask this in the name of Jesus,
our
Lord and Savior.
Amen
