Jewish Odysseus: NO, WE LOVE FREEDOM MORE THAN YOU LOVE DEATH.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

NO, WE LOVE FREEDOM MORE THAN YOU LOVE DEATH.

On this strange Memorial Day 2009, with the first truly anti-American President as Commander-in-Chief, it helps to review a little history to keep things in perspective. Those are of course the US Marines on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, the first time an invader had ever raised its flag over Japanese soil.

These men, and those who cherish their memories, understood that our liberty was, and is, a precious, divine gift that we need to protect, with utmost violence, if necessary. And no foreign monster, nor his domestic fellow-traveller in the Oval Office, will ever be able to confuse us about that.

Thanks to all our soldiers, sailors and airmen and women who have and continue to protect our freedoms against all threats, foreign and domestic.

2 comments:

GM Roper said...: God Bless our Fallen Heroes!; May 24, 2009 at 6:46:00 PM PDT
Beach Girl said...: Yes, our first truly anti-American president. We will live to regret the day we put a Marxist in the White House.; May 27, 2009 at 4:29:00 PM PDT

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The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.