Welcome to my mind

You've heard the saying, "Opinions are like a**holes. Everyong has one and they all stink." From time to time now you can tune in to this blog and find out my stinking opinion on current events. Should you value my opinion? You'll have to decide for yourself whether it's of any worth to you. I can only tell you that my world view and my view of current events is shaped from actually seeing the world, from the best of places, middle Tennessee, to the worst of places in Afghanistan, Iraq and other third (and forth world countries).

I woke up to the world around me in 1979 when I was a senior in high school in sleepy, uninformed Smithville, Tennessee. Radical Iranian students stormed the American embassy in Teheran and took fifty American hostages and kept them for 444 days. When that happened I went from being a long haired, dope smoker who talked bad about his country to someone who finally realized that there was a price for freedom. I spent the next two decades doing things that the easy going, long haired teen ager would never have dreamed of doing before he woke up to the real world. I spent the next twenty years learning the price of our freedom. With twenty years of learning, I can tell you plainly that the price of freedom is sacrifice. On September 11, 2001, the price for our freedom went up considerably. September the 10th was the last day any American could afford to place political correctness above defending our liberty. That was the last day we could worry more about offending someone or hurting someone's feelings than we could worry about protecting our borders, our homes, and our families and really paying the price for liberty.

I guess that's why I decided to call this site the "Price of Freedom." A man much wiser than me once wrote, "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain, inalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." We have been endowed with these rights. That means they are a gift from God. They are free. But...sometimes we are asked to pay to keep these gifts. Sometimes it costs us everything we own, encluding our life. There are young American men and women in uniform paying everything they own, every day, so that we may keep the gift of freedom. Is the price too high?
Not in my stinking opinion.

SSG JDale