This journal (9/25/07) was written as a letter to the editor in response to an article we read in class, “The Real Price of Freedom.” The article made some really good points, and this letter is a type of personal challenge about the points that touched me most.
To the Editor:
Please let me congratulate you on the article “The Real Price of Freedom.” The points made deserve further elaboration. Do not our soldiers, and valiantly so, directly risk their lives for freedom? Yet these are the same who, in a large part through torture, deny the freedom they fight for to some. Do they die for the rights of some? No, if we do not protect the rights of all we cannot fairly protect the rights of any. Is the sacrifice of constant comfort and safety one to great to ask for in exchange for freedom. If so, perhaps we are not ready for freedom. The bells of liberty come with a price–a forced ring is not so resounding as one that is complete. Can you not hear the laughter of irony ringing through our country? Now is the time to forever silence its cry. I am willing to turn in safety for freedom, are you?
