Like it or not, freedom means being free to live and behave as we choose, without regard to the thoughts or feelings of others, as long as our freedoms don’t impinge on the rights or freedoms of others.

Military, let alone the state of the country he and his fellow service members fought for, some of whom paid the ultimate price so that we may be free. Marine who drove a tank onto the black sandy beach of Iwo Jima on Day One of what some historians would consider “the bloodiest battle” of WW II - would think about the state of today’s U.S. I have often wondered in recent years what my dad - a 21-year-old U.S.