For too many Americans, the words "freedom" and "liberty" have abstract meanings.

 

You will never know how much these words mean you you personally until you lose them and find yourself in the hands of a hostile government.  I saw this first hand in Grenada about a year (1984) after Operation URGENT FURY that overthrew the communist-led government there. 

 

The average Greanadian knew first hand what the loss of freedom and liberty was all about because they had just suffered through it.  They'd seen a lot of friends and family murdered by their own government.  They were grateful that the Americans (and allies) had come to liberate them from the communists and restore their freedoms.

 

This Fourth of July, remember our warriors.  Americans come not to plunder, but to free the oppressed. 

 

All gave some. 

 

Some gave all. 

 

The cost of freedom and liberty is paid in blood.