Posted by
"Happy" Jake Greene on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:27:37 AM
- In the Revolutionary war, 25,000 American Soldiers, mostly militia members and what we would now call Reservists, died so that we might become an independent nation and a beacon of Freedom and Democracy for all the world to see. It was our Revolution, and the success of our way of life that slowly sparked other bloody and bloodless revolutions that moved the Western World from a series of monarchies to a series of democracies.
- In the War of 1812 20,000 American Soldiers died repelling the only invasion by a foreign military force and established our sovereignty both within our borders and on the high seas.
- In the Mexican-American War, 13,300 American Soldiers died liberating the then-independent Republic of Texas from Mexican control and acquiring territory that would become the US Desert Southwest.
- In the Civil War, 365,000 American Soldiers died preserving the Union and establishing a climate in which slavery would be officially abolished. Furthermore, another 260,000 American Soldiers died defending the concept of States’ Rights and the sovereignty of the several states.
- In World War I, 116,500 American Soldiers died defending Europe from the tyranny of the German Empire.
- In World War II, 405,000 American Soldiers died liberating Europe from the brutal tyranny of Nazi Domination, and liberating the Pacific rim (including the Philippines, China, Korea, and the Island territories of the US), from the brutal tyranny of Imperial Japanese occupation.
- In Korea and Vietnam, 95,000 American Soldiers died fighting the spread of the greatest evil the world has ever seen, Communism, and fighting proxy wars against the greatest enemy America has had to this point, the Soviet Union.
- In the first Gulf War, 300 American Soldiers died liberating the nation of Kuwait from invasion by an evil tyrant.
- In the War on Terrorism, 4,800 Americans have died capturing and killing people whose sole and expressed purpose in life is the eradication of freedom in favor of radical Islamist domination, and whose methods primarily consist of murdering innocents for political gain.
This Thanksgiving, I ask that everyone give thanks to God for our military and the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have died to protect your freedoms.