Amazing Photo: Hurricane does not deter guards at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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323. What is the point?

Whether we like it or not, the military will always be a part of human existence. I don't see anyway around it, do you? I certainly don't want my way of life being thrown into chaos every time some other country, some other state, some other band of idiots decides they want what I have.

In point, we have 300,000,000 people in our country. They have more liberty than any country of this size on the planet. There is more raw opportunity in this country because of that Liberty. That is what is guarded by the military.

Yes, you can talk all you want about how we are not free enough, and I would probably agree. You can complain as much as you want about inequality, discrimination, incarceration and civil liberties not being where they should, and I would agree. I would even state that our greatest threat to liberty lies within our own borders and banks on Wall Street. But I, like many others on DU took an oath to serve for four years, many years ago. I did that in order to do my duty to protect this grand experiment. Now, I guard it from within by teaching dissent, liberty and creative revolution in the classroom. Something I wouldn't be able to do if others like me hadn't signed up to protect my ability to teach and students ability to question.

I understand people's animus toward War, Patriotism and their symbols. But the soldiers who lie in those tombs represent something greater than you or I, something to contemplate, not merely to take cheap shots at.