The Cost Of Freedom

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The Cost of Freedom
Freedom stands where anything falls. It stands because of the price paid for it. Christ paid for freedom: America’s fathers paid for freedom: firefighters and police officers paid for freedom on September eleventh. The cost of freedom is in the life of the free. To put a price on freedom is to put a price on spilled blood.
Working miracles and teaching the masses, Christ lived daily to serve. His life became the epitome of perfection, and He knew there was a price being paid. To give generations an access into Heaven, Christ insisted on His life fulfilling the price. He was brutally tortured, made to bear a cross, and then hang on it, all for freedom. Blood was shed.
In the late seventeen hundreds, newborn America realized the cost of freedom. Fifty-six delegates to the Second Continental Congress drew up a document that would forego over two hundred years of freedom to come. Each delegate knew full well the consequences of treachery, which would be death, should their ordeal fail. All signed. During the war, estates were burned, fortunes were lost, death ran among them … freely. Blood was shed.
The sky shone grey, another day brought people to work and school. As the clock reached ten AM, a hijacked plane struck the north tower of the Twin Towers in New York. Within minutes, New York fire and rescue teams rushed into the burning stories to help salvage what life remained. Police officers on the street assisted citizens away from the burning building. Moments later, the second tower was struck, killing more innocence. The towers collapsed. Over one hundred fifty of the nations finest civil service members became trapped inside, along with possibly thousands of New York citizens. Blood was shed.
Blood must be shed to pay the cost of freedom. The cost of freedom has not, and will never, change. The past is filled with those who paid the price of freedom, and today, those who enjoy th...