The elite in America — educators, journalists, Main Stream Media, Beltway Bureaucrats — have a very high opinion of themselves.
Time for a refresher course on military contribution to and protection of liberty.
It would serve those “enlightened elitists” well to remember who exactly won and preserves the rights they have to pontificate such malarky day after day.
“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.”
—Father Dennis Edward O’Brien, Sergeant, USMarineCorps
Note the following Pew research graphic:
As for me, I will thank a Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine and Coastie. I know what freedom is. I know our liberty is guaranteed by The Constitution.
