Monday, September 13, 2010

Keeping America Free and Safe

Over the centuries, millions of immigrants from German-speaking countries like Austria and Switzerland came to America to enjoy liberty. But they did not merely enjoy it, they worked to protect it.

If you enjoy living in peace and freedom, it is because somebody somewhere worked in past, or is working in the present, to preserve your liberty and security. Wherever citizens of one country enjoy justice, other countries will inevitably attack it. Thomas Sowell writes:

The German military tradition gave the United States some of its leading generals down through history - including those generals who led American armies to victory against Germany in World War I and World War II - Pershing and Eisenhower.


To those names we can add Chester W. Nimitz, who orchestrated American victories in the Pacific during WWII, and Baron von Steuben, who introduced effective training methods and tactics among Washington's troops.