my love for a good Essay

So for many of you on here you know that i love to write, and a lot of it is well its long real long. For several years now i have been writing essay's many of them i share on facebook, and only a few have a shared here.

this is one that i am working on and would like your input, i feel there maybe a book here on sacrifice, but so far the only books i find i can write our sci fi.


From the time of our nation’s founding men and woman alike had decided to chart their own way forward. Freedom was the rallying cry; and good men and woman of strong character took a chance to see this nation become what it was meant to be. They started the wheel rolling. Throughout history the battles they fought claimed many lives. Black and white alike the thing we all had in common was the need and want to be free.

Today our Nation is divided. Each of us lumped into our own groups African Americans, Mexican Americans White Americans and so on and so on. Political correctness and revisionist history has shattered the dream Those men and woman had gave their lives for.

In the military there is only one color; it is the color of our nation. We don’t care if you’re a white boy from the farms and ranches of Montana, we don’t care if you’re a Mexican from the streets of Los Angeles, We don’t care if you’re a black man from Oakland. What we care about is each other. My brothers and sisters regardless of the pigment of our skin we stand for each other. We fight for each other like no other.

There was a man and his name was Crispus Attucks and It is believed that he was of the first of three people killed prior to the American revolution at the Boston Massacre. Crispus was a black man he is also considered to be the first American casualty of the war. American not African American, but an American. Two other men fell beside Crispus that day Samuel Gray and James Caldwell Brothers Who lost their lives at the start of the war.

Revisionist History would tell you that people of color were drafted and not given a choice. However we know this to not be true. Records of the events speak otherwise and thankfully we have them. The battle of Lexington and Bunker hill saw Brother and brother fight alongside each other. Black and white our blood was spilled.

For a dark and sick time our nation was infected with a disease. That disease was slavery, one of the many left over consequences of humanity’s infant thought on how we treat our fellow man. Slavery in the united states was not a new thing; Nations across the planet from recorded history and further back shows us that we as a race, and by that I mean the human race; are sometimes brutal and cruel to one another. Racism is no different and because we are human it is for us to be better than those who have come before us.

The people who served this nation came from all walks of life; each with a different ethnic background but ever single Soldier, Sailor, Marine, and Airmen that laid down their lives, did so, so you could have the freedoms that our forefathers knew to be self evident and granted by our maker.

From 1775 until now there have been roughly 1,345,812 servicemen killed with 1,529,230 wounded. This cost doesn’t even come close to the lives that had been devastated by that loss. Mothers, Fathers, Sons, Daughters the list is endless. These petty arguments over a piece of cloth that only holds power over those who let it. Even now the flag of our nation comes under attack, in the Sixty’s those who served this nation were spit on and there was genuine hate for our nation. The problem is today we are so close to having our liberty’s taken the very foundation of what makes our nation so great is fractured.

The fracture I speak of is the social division of us as a people. You see our enemy knows that the only way for us to become weak is to divide us. They do this by stoking the flames of racial tension, they attack your rights with words like social justice. Tell me how you justify taking from on to give to another?

My Brothers and sisters come from all walks of life and their blood has paid the price for you to burn our flag, that same flag that drapes the coffins of our fallen. Is it too much to ask that you set aside your racial mongering and baiting to realize that we are not what we once were that we are better than we were?
On November 21 2010 Lance Corporal, Kyle Carpenter threw his body on a grenade to save the life of his friend Nick Eufrazio, Kyle survived at least by the grace of god. But it was his unfaltering duty to his brother that would demand his honor to take the risk of being shipped home to an ungrateful nation.

Yes I said it ungrateful, can’t be helped. The people of this nation are more interested in their television shows, their sports, the new car and their cell phones. Ignorance to the cost and ignorance to the price has allowed the people of this nation to slip into bad habits of ignoring what’s truly going wrong in this nation. You are divided by race, you are divided by class.
Others have lost their lives in an attempt to save others and regardless of how you feel; The truth of the matter is you can never know unless you were there. Those of us know we have a bond that nothing will ever be able to separate. We cannot be divided and we cannot be weakened our unity is what gives us strength, our willingness to sacrifice our own lives so that others may live is what makes us, US.

The united states, when we abbreviate our nation we do so using the first two letters of our nation, US. Not you and them, not black and white but U and S. US. Don’t allow the Al Sharpton’s and the Dylann Roofs of the world divide you!

Let the example of our armed forces inspire you to meet division head on, Take back your own! Do not allow those who would divide us have the power over US. Stay vigilant of the hatred our own elected officials have for you. Don’t let the call for social justice blind you to the fact that it only has one purpose, and that is to take away from you what we have paid for you, your freedom.

SGT. Gardner, Kevin, M.