Freedom

Imagine that you're a Jewish teenager in Germany around nineteen forty. You have one of two options you can give up your freedom and go into hiding, avoiding the Nazi soldiers and communists. On the other hand you can take the second option which is to obviously be found and go into a Nazi concentration camp. Now tell me how much freedom do you think you would have as this teenager in nineteen forty? Freedom has been challenged multiple times over history and many times it has been taken for granted.

Often it has also been taken from good people without their consent.

First what does freedom mean? Freedom to me means everything. Freedom is a way of life, and a god given right to live life the way that any man wishes. To me every man and woman, in the entire world, should have that right.

Many times over the years, America has stood behind freedom and has fought foreign battles to give citizens of other countries the same right that we cherish. Critics say that America should mind their own business and solve domestic problems, but I believe that America, giving freedom to foreign men, is a domestic problem. Freedom has been challenged around the world, and every time it is challenged, America steps in and lets "freedom reign."

Every war the United States has been in has been about freedom whether it was our freedom or another's. During the Revolutionary War, America fought for its freedom. Throughout the civil war America fought for slave's freedom and rights, and during World War II the United States fought for the freedom of most of Europe. During Vietnam and the Korean War the Untied States fought for the freedom of both south Vietnam and South Korea saving them from communist control, and for the duration of our latest wars, America has fought for the freedom of many people in Iraq and Afghanistan. To many Americans, fighting in wars means absolutely nothing. They ask questions like "Why are we even in this war?" and "How did we get involved?" but if you ask any man involved that has seen what the war has brought to the people of that country, they will certainly insure you it is extremely worth it. Foreigners around the world are in "awe" with gratefulness to what America has brought them, Freedom, Freedom from tyranny, Freedom from fear, and Freedom from oppression.

Many people have never been given the right to freedom,