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Merry Christmas and Thanks to American Troops and Coalition Troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the world and a Christmas-Card Page to Jeff Phillip Craig.
The best of the words of a sage inscribed on a Christmas card page can never be nobler than courage of soldiers
like one who's named Jeff Phillip Craig. On Christmas, to Jeff we give thanks for serving in liberty's ranks
for countrymen's sake, posterity's sake, and sake his buddies in ranks. We also give thanks to the rest
who likewise are doing their best to bravely confront the terror they hunt so Faith can in Liberty rest.
A
Christmas
Card
Page
to
Jeff
Phillip
Craig.
The best of the words of a sage
inscribed on a Christmas card page
can never be nobler
than courage of soldiers
like one who's named Jeff Phillip Craig.
On Christmas, to Jeff
we give thanks
for serving in liberty's ranks
for countrymen's sake,
posterity's sake
and sake of his buddies in ranks.
We
also give thanks to the rest
who likewise are doing their best
to bravely confront
the terror they hunt
so Faith can in Liberty rest.
To
all who endure and remain
on duty in snow, heat, or rain
this Christmas we say
the song we would play
says Thanks for Your Deeds in Our Name:
Thanks
in Our Name for Deeds in Our Name.
From
farms in the country, from cities and towns
from places quite humble, from places renowned,
from fact'ries, from stores and from offices tall,
from service professions, from stores in our malls,
come citizen soldiers their country to serve
as full time professionals or guard or reserve.
From mothers and fathers and husbands and wives,
from children and lovers and friends in their lives,
our citizen soldiers depart despite tears
on missions of danger in spite of their fears
as selflessly, proudly, and bravely they serve
that freedom of conscience and Faith be preserved.
In caves and in tunnels where murderers train
unspeakable terror they face in our name.
With principled discipline, training and skill
in taming the instinct to kill or be killed
our citizen soldiers have honored our name,
so, proudly we thank them for deeds in our name.
They serve in the skies, and at sea and on land,
in mountains and jungles and deserts of sand,
on foot and in foxholes, in trenches and tents,
in tanks and on submarine mission descents,
in planes and on ships and on carrier decks,
in Humvees, and hangars and convoys on treks.
For risks to themselves in their battles with terrors
increased by attempts to use force without error,
for risks to themselves they increase by providing
assistance to those who for freedom are striving,
our citizen soldiers have honored our name,
so thank them we must for their deeds in our name.
So we and posterity freedom retain
barbaric regimes you confront in our name.
To you who defend us, we proudly proclaim
our pride in the deeds you have done in our name.
We thank you, we thank you for deeds in our name,
We thank you, we thank you for deeds in our name.·
Copyright, November, 2003, by James R. Wrenn, Jr., Editor at
PoliSat.Com. Note to visitors: I'm in the process of arranging for recording and
production of this song as a means to honor those
who serve us in the military. For more about this and for links to display a larger version of
the slide-show accompanying the lyrics, go to http://PoliSat.Com/DeedsInOurName.htm.
--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.·
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Questions for Americans:
Shouldn't we be at least as generous in supporting the families of our troops killed or injured while serving our country in Afghanistan, Iraq, in America and throughout the rest of the world as we were for the families of the victims of 9-11? Here are some suggestions:
*Salute American Heroes* *Support Fallen Heroes Fund*
Shouldn't
we recognize that many, if not most, instances of foreign anti-Americanism in the late 20th Century
(like most of the foreign anti-Americanism today) focused reactionary rage against maintenance of,
and willingness to use, human-rights-respecting power against forces that oppose liberty and favor
the "stability" of the status quo? See a retrospective
on Ronald Reagan. Shouldn't we recognize that despite arguments to
the contrary by devotees of the United Nations that the world remains a yet-to-be-civilized place in
which the wise exercise of human-rights-respecting power more than intellectual sophistry can best
assure the survival of liberty?
Shouldn't we recognize that "property rights" are among the most fundamental of "human rights" and are therefore vital to the survival of liberty? See "'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness' versus 'Life, Liberty [and] Property.'"
Questions for secular thinkers:
Shouldn't secular thinkers be at least as respectful towards ordinary people of faith as George Bush is towards ordinary secular thinkers, and shouldn't ordinary secular thinkers repudiate fanatical secular fundamentalists at least as firmly as Bush repudiates fanatical religious fundamentalists? Shouldn't secular fundamentalists learn to recognize the unscientific nature of their own leaps of faith before throwing stones at unscientific leaps of faith by ordinary people of faith? See satire/commentary about Secular Fundamentalists and Religious Fanatics.
Shouldn't
people professing to be secular thinkers learn to understand the difference between science and political
science (i.e., politicized science)? Shouldn't radical environmentalists learn
to understand that their views are little more than modern forms of pantheism?
See Satire/Commentary about Pantheopians. Shouldn't they learn
to objectively and scientifically scrutinize theories such as Global Warming at least as rigorously
as they scrutinize "creationism"? See "Global
Warming or Scientific Flatulence?" See also the commentary on proposed "climate
stewardship" legislation and the animated illustration, "Goblins
of Globalized 'Warming.'"
Shouldn't
people professing to be secular thinkers learn to understand that what science reveals about human
evolution supports, rather than undermines, the sensibility of a rebuttable presumption that
monogamous, heterosexual marriage best serves the interests of children notwithstanding the
sensibility of recognizing civil unions to accord comparable (but not identical) privileges
to mutual-support partnerships? See commentary "Evolution
versus Revolution" and the animated illustration, "Devolution
versus Evolution."
Questions for people of faith:
Shouldn't people with faith that a Deity created free will recognize that compulsory piety would be offensive to such Deity?
Shouldn't people with faith that a Deity created free will recognize that political compromises limiting the power of government to compel conformity with theocratic doctrines over which other people of faith, as well as secular thinkers, can reasonably disagree would not be offensive to such Deity? See commentary about our Founding Documents, the Constitution and the Creator.
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