What is freedom? Freedom to me is the men that have given up their lives in the battle for freedom. The men who bravely charged into the night not knowing what was standing on the otherside waiting for them. That is freedom, men, and women who fight for our rights to be truly free. Without them none of what we have right now would be even possible. So this is what freedom is people fighting the fight, sacrificing everything they had just so that the future of the nation isn't lost in the battle.
             War is never friendly or good, you never say that killing people was beneficial but in obtaining freedom for ones nation, lose of life seems always to be a part of it. Men of the Navy, the Army, and the Marines have always seemed to answer the call of our nation. To take down the unjust out there, to bring the hammer down on such lunatics as Hitler and such people, that have challenged our right to be free. When our freedom and rights were challenged when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor we responded to take back what was ours, our humanity.
             This is freedom to me, living in my house, getting up everyday, going to school, I choose that, making my own decisions for myself. Not living in a police state but rather having my own choice of what I shall wear, what I shall do, that my friends is freedom. Not being judged by the color of my skin but to stand up when the time comes and say I will answer the call of the nation, I will stand up and fight the good fight. For as my freedom is truly in check now, that our nation has been down struck by the ugly face of terrorism.
             Our grandfathers fought in a war of great significance, which altered the face of history, as we know it. Why? To keep ones freedom, to hold the Jewish peoples freedom and the rest of the worlds from ugly dictators or mad men that rose to power in their own country due to a few scared people out there. That is why we the people shall always arise to the occasio...