What does freedom mean to you?

2016-02-23T09:27:45-05:00

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 23 at 2016 9:30 AM

2016-02-23T09:30:08-05:00

Opportunity without restriction

Response by CW4 Juan Morales made Feb 23 at 2016 9:30 AM

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As Army Ranger, Aviator and paratrooper Kris Kristofferson once wrote in a song, 'Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.'

Response by SSG Warren Swan made Feb 23 at 2016 9:42 AM

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You're wearing it in your pic. 240 years of it, right, wrong, or indifferent. We're STILL here, pretty much the way we started. No other country has had the success we've had as long.

Response by SSG Donald Mceuen made Feb 23 at 2016 9:43 AM

2016-02-23T09:43:19-05:00

Life with out restrictions or oppertunity

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 23 at 2016 9:52 AM

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Do what you want to do on life.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 23 at 2016 1:42 PM

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This is simple. Freedom, at least to me, is making my own choices without infringement by others yet doing so in an adult and responsible manner.

Response by SSG Michael Scott made Feb 23 at 2016 1:56 PM

2016-02-23T13:56:02-05:00

Everything

Response by PFC Tuan Trang made Feb 23 at 2016 2:00 PM

2016-02-23T14:00:31-05:00

Freedom mean you can live with your friends and family without fear.

Response by MSG Wally Carmichael made Feb 23 at 2016 3:27 PM

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Working my butt off for a few years to be able to enjoy life with my family when and where I want to, like this...

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 23 at 2016 4:04 PM

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Freedom to me is the ability to like what I want and dislike what I want. Do what I want (within the law of course) without worrying what others think, and affording the same to others!

Response by CDR Michael Goldschmidt made Feb 23 at 2016 4:18 PM

2016-02-23T16:18:09-05:00

Freedom is being free from coercion or threat, as long as I am not threatening or using force against another. Of course, the United States hasn't been free for anyone since before the Civil War, and especially not since 1913.

Response by CPT Ahmed Faried made Feb 23 at 2016 4:36 PM

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Finally getting rid of SallieMae.

Response by SSgt William Linnell-Rivas made Feb 24 at 2016 12:22 AM

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No religion.

Response by COL Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 24 at 2016 8:51 AM

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Freedom is an illusion. No person is free. Usually they are beholden to the chains and the cages they build for themselves. True freedom is only gained by giving up societal norms which constrain and restrain you, requiring you to live by your own moral guides, doing what you want when you want. People misunderstand true freedom and attempt to measure it on a scale. X country is more "free" than Y country. Often we mistake the word democratic for free. There is much confusion because the term is not defined. Freedom is an illusion.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 25 at 2016 3:39 AM

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It means choosing your own path in life without fear. I've been in countries with caste systems, legal discrimination, and state religion. I've seen minorities openly persecuted with no response from their government. We are not perfect but I am proud to be an American

Response by Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 1 at 2016 9:58 AM

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To me it means you can do what you want with in limits. God gave you freedom it's like a test. He wants to see if you give into the temptation of the world,so he wants you to stay with him through the trail.

Response by PO3 Steven Sherrill made Mar 1 at 2016 10:01 AM

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SSG Private RallyPoint Member Crush your enemies, See them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women? Wait no sorry, that is the answer to what is best in life.

Freedom is being able to speak my mind. Freedom is a steak medium rare because I feel like it. Freedom is being able to get in my car and go where I want without being told I cannot go there. Freedom is being able to worship in a manner I see fit without being told that it is not allowed. Freedom is pursuing the things I enjoy without interference. Freedom is the mutual respect that I can do the things I have listed, and you can do the same so long as we are respectful of each others' right to do so.

Response by Capt Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 1 at 2016 10:32 AM

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I once gave a talk at our church on veteran's day. In over 8 years of reserve time this was one of only two times I wore my uniform in other than duty status.

My basic premise was thanking people for coming and listening to what I had to say. Freedom means you came here tonight by choice not because someone told you a soldier was speaking here and you had to attend.

It was extremely well received.

Response by SrA Jonathan Carbonaro made Mar 1 at 2016 8:16 PM

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It means that as long as what I do, am doing, have done; harms no one you can't say anything. And Vice Versa. For to many these days freedom is I can do what I want, but you can't do what you want. As long as no is harmed, its no ones business.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 1 at 2016 11:19 PM

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The ability to choose. Choose indolence or industry, animosity or amity, dignity or disgrace, service or selfishness, avarice or altruism, carnality or chastity, conniption or content, maligninty or morality. Any or all up to the point it denies another the same ability to choose.

Response by SGT Curtis Bleacher made Jun 1 at 2022 10:17 PM

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To have decisions to make and you have the right to make them based on what you have learned, experienced and feel you have enough intelligence to do what you want within the laws because able to do so without someone trying to control your desire.

Response by Cpl Michael P made Jun 1 at 2022 10:51 PM

2022-06-01T22:51:29-04:00

Freedom means being able to make your own decisions with out having to be escorted in or out of chains and to say no without fear of repercussions.

Response by SSgt Stephen Cochran made Jun 9 at 2022 6:34 PM

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The right to live life as I want to, as long as it is not intrusive (directly) to others. To live in what used to be the greatest country in the world. Politics aside I am not as free as I was 2 years ago.

Response by SGT Brian Pasquarelli made Jun 15 at 2022 6:30 PM

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Being able to do whatever you want safely.

Response by SFC Howard Lee made Jun 23 at 2022 12:42 AM

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Being an American citizen living under a government system that gives you the ability to live your life without undo restrictions or fear.
Knowing your way of life is protected by the best government and military system in the world

Response by CH (1LT) Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 29 at 2022 7:16 PM

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Ultimate sacrifice. No greater love than that who would lay down his life for his friend

Response by Amn Chris Humbert-Nassetta made Jun 30 at 2022 2:29 AM

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Birth right! Liberty, or death!

Response by SP5 Jose Elizondo made Jun 30 at 2022 8:22 PM

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Not being enslaved by any form of man’s governing structures

Response by Cpl Bernard Bates made Jul 1 at 2022 1:32 PM

2022-07-01T13:32:13-04:00

I remember going to bootcamp at parris Island in 1959. I found out what freedom was because at bootcamp you didn't have any. The recruits couldn't do anything without the DI,s permission. I rember we were supposed to be filmed while we were marching. The DI. had us pour the water out of our canteen on the ground. So when we took a break we had to pretend to drink out of empty canteens. You didn't drink water unless you had permission. On graduation day it was like being let out of prison we could walk around the base. Be with your family if they came to graduation. Then you realizied what freedom was about. The Corp made sure that we knew freedom wasn't free. any Men and women paid with their lives so the rest of us could be free. Semper Fi.

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Jul 1 at 2022 6:05 PM

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Fairness

Response by PVT Roger Delgadillo made Jul 6 at 2022 11:21 PM

2022-07-06T23:21:23-04:00

To be free

Response by SGT Rofino Crisostomo Sr. made Jul 7 at 2022 12:25 AM

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To serve and defend our country and our flag of the USA.

Response by SFC Clifford Brewer made Jul 14 at 2022 3:18 AM

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To me freedom is have the rights to
live on this earth in peace without fear of someone doing me harm

Response by PFC Christine Craig made Jul 25 at 2022 10:47 AM

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The choice to be who we want to be and to say what we believe without ridicule.

Response by SN Sheldon Kaminsky made Jul 26 at 2022 2:37 PM

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Being born in America. To be free to do what you want (as long as it'sl egal)

Response by Sgt Joel Pedaline made Jul 27 at 2022 6:27 PM

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Freedom is the cornerstone of a republic that practices democracy. Democracy cannot survive absent of personal freedom

Response by SPC Brandon Servantez made Jul 27 at 2022 7:10 PM

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1% that swore in

Response by SrA Darwin Nichols made Jul 27 at 2022 7:38 PM

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To be able to come and go when and where I want to go. Be able to give my feelings without being told I can.

Response by SP6 Peter Murphy made Jul 27 at 2022 10:15 PM

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Freedom is the concept of choice free from encumbrances or coercion of any kind.

Response by SGT Steven Taylor made Jul 27 at 2022 10:37 PM

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Free will

Response by SPC Eduard Ionescu made Jul 28 at 2022 8:23 AM

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Feeling at peace, without feeling of being persecuted by others for your beliefs, etc

Response by PO2 Matt Armstrong made Jul 28 at 2022 9:42 AM

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Freedom is just another word for nothing left to
Lose .

Response by PVT Arthur Fournier made Aug 1 at 2022 2:40 PM

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Thank you for your Service

Response by Sgt Leon Hoskins made Aug 31 at 2022 8:19 PM

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Living in America

Response by Sgt Victor Arce made Sep 6 at 2022 11:07 PM

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The USA..

Response by LCpl Steven Noeth made Dec 28 at 2022 10:10 PM

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Freedom is the way that all human beings should not take for Granted. Someone has paid the Ultimate Sacrifice for us to have Freedom. God Bless all of my Brothers that Have Fallen so that we can continue to be together and Free. May you REST IN PEACE

Response by SSG Steve Knox made Dec 30 at 2022 10:58 AM

2022-12-30T10:58:41-05:00

To me it means peace without intervention.

Response by SGT James (Jim) Long made Aug 2 at 2023 8:31 PM

2023-08-02T20:31:44-04:00

To me freedom means having a choice to run your life the way you think it should be run as long as it doesn't interfere or cause any harm to another human being, innocent human being. Freedom is not free and we know more than anyone that fact. It means responsibility to our fellow man or fellow American and our government to make sure the right things are being done all the time.AATW just a little picture of freedom and true Homeland security

Response by 1SG John Millan made Jan 30 at 2024 10:08 AM

2024-01-30T10:08:09-05:00

Saying no to liberals, socialists, Democrats, open borders, gin control, riots, de-policing, and embracing America, democracy, the West, capitalism and peace through strength.

Response by SP5 Robert Kennedy made Jan 31 at 2024 1:03 PM

2024-01-31T13:03:54-05:00

That's a great question SSG (Verify to see). Having never been a slave (although in my limited imagination, basic training may be my closest brush with it) I can only imagine some of the best things I have experienced would never have happened... hell, at my current age, if a slave I'd never have lasted this long.
On a beautiful day can a slave say screw (whatever he was scheduled to do) this, and go for a speedboat ride or go skiing after a perfect snow blanket was laid by our Creator? Can a slave go on a tropical vacation and meet the love of his life - and pursue her? What slave has ever designed and built his imaginary "perfect dwelling"? Or crashed a wedding, or mooned traffic from a speeding vehicle, or streaked mamasans doing their laundry during TET 1968? THANK GOD, I am an American, and was blessed to experience the best life I could ever have imagined!

Response by SMSgt Lawrence McCarter made Feb 1 at 2024 8:22 AM

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Being able to live Your day to day life without interference from the government that should be serving You NOT making You a subject and exploiting You. The government that governs least governs best and We certainly don't need them controlling every aspect of our life ! Far too often government grows well beyond the needed day to day functions to provide service and also protect us and give us safety each day to become far too controlling of our existence and eroding our individual and family Freedom.

Response by SGT Robert Urbaniak made Feb 1 at 2024 10:21 AM

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It means that I, and my family and friends can bask in the sunlight of this land that I love. Do as we choose to live our lives inside of the laws we have.