Heroes...

This photo was taken two days after the Battle of Antietam, on September 19, 1862 by Alexander Gardner.  There were over 22,000 casualties in this one single battle in our American Civil War.  Shown is a member of the US Army looking at the grave of a comrade-in-arms, while a Confederate soldier is left unburied, and, apparently, unmourned.  We Americans said, "We can't let this happen again."

 

The remains of the Gibralter Bunker, near Ponzieres, France (on the Somme) in 1916.  After the end of World War I, we Americans said, "We can't let this happen again."

 

Survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, were freed by American troops on 11 April 1945.  The Camp had been constructed in 1937, near Weimar, Germany - it is estimated that 56,545 people died at Buchenwald.   If you count seven heads, or six faces, from the left, in the second row, you will see Elie Wiesel, next to the support post.  We Americans said, "We can't let this happen again."

 

Eleven years ago today, we Americans watched in horror as the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were struck by highjacked American passenger planes.  After the explosions, the Towers fell.  And we Americans said, "We can't let this happen again."

 

We are a proud people in a proud nation.  Our national flag, whether you call her "Old Glory," "the Stars and Stripes," or just "my flag," is representative of freedom - freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to be who you are, as long as you cause no harm to others.  God bless America.