American Pride in Freedom
The soldier, a world history rife with abuses recorded in acts of heroism at the demise of others, done for the sake of a ruler’s arrogant desire of control and power, of land and wealth.
The soldiers who fought in biblical wars, fought for the Will of God, win or lose, their purpose to fulfill what is meant to happen.
Time after time battles brought in the name of God, or someone claiming a deity, as a means of revolution, rebellion, and any other method to undermine whatever forms of equilibrium and civility man had gained. Often a group of people lived without any rulers, but remained together as a tribe, their land never threatened, and never knowing themselves as primitive in relation to others, as they had no knowledge of others, their rule was self-government, but in the eyes of those who want power, these are the uncivilized, and need to be ruled.
Races and Tribes who organized, or were organized, by one of their race or tribe who wanted to be leader, were routinely led by another in succession, generation after generation, to the point each generation’s leader found that an act of great manipulation of the people in manpower was necessary just to keep the people’s respect and submission. The Egyptians demonstrate this necessity for something significant to occur under a ruler. Production of great achievement was a secondary concern, and yet the answer to times where war and conquering a foe were not available to rally the people to carry out the Pharaoh’s will as soldiers of war. Rome too carried on this way Caesar after Caesar, until there was nothing that wasn’t influenced by Rome, and self-government, self-determination and any level of individual freedom, no longer existed. The civility of Rome, the collective freedom of the tribe, was supplanted over and above the freedoms of the individual in every instance. Slavery, in one form or another, was the common product of these grown governments and their armies of oppressive central government, the soldier a tool of propaganda and order, and for no other purpose but the will of the leader in the moment.
The whole point of the soldier in accomplishing death was in order for their lord or leader to gain unfettered and unchallenged access to the land of these tribes, these people who stood in the way of their lord’s importance, be it actual or delusional whims of self proclamation.
This is an infinitesimally small summary history of the soldier, a history of greater than 4,000 years, and likely deriving from the beginning of tribal existence, a summary so easy to make because the rulers were always pursuing the same goals of conquest, confiscation, pillaging and oppressive suffering. This imposition on the people in exchange for the ruler’s ability to organize and rule, in the name of the ruler proving their power, authority, and right of rule over those paying for the ruler’s way of life. A wonderful circle of arrogant abuse throughout history imposed solely by central government over man.
This is a history that was broken over God’s knee with the founding of America. America where soldiers fight for the freedom of men, to enjoy their individual liberty, to appreciate their lives without the shadow of government and those who seek power alone as their self-indulgent reward for oppressing those who think otherwise, who want to be free. The weak or the strong, of all colors, races, and creeds, of every religion, whose willingness to be of America for what she stands for, are all free by merely holding that very willing desire. Of all that America has given to the world, our soldiers, our blood and treasure, have been the greatest gift to mankind, as ours fight the tyrants, and carry on Ben Franklin’s motto affixed to Thomas Jefferson’s Seal “Rebellion against Tyrants is obedience to God.” Fighting for the freedom of people, for their right of self-determination, self-government, to help people in all nations of the world know that they too have the unalienable right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, to help them walk on their own in the light of God, the life of their Creator who grants them these divine powers above all government, that is what America’s Soldiers are for! This is America’s will for all the World and their people, to achieve their liberty by their right and with God’s help, to know We The People of America, whose generations have been and continue to be our soldier’s might, place in this one heart of Faith to stand with all People, in every nation, as our Brothers and Sisters in arms against oppression, against government denial of their God-given unalienable Rights.
May God Bless America, our soldiers and all of God’s Children whosoever need our blood and treasure to fight for them and what God gave them, whether they, or their leaders, believe it or not.
Thank you for reading,
Toddy Littman
