My Brother-in-law is a Marine

A couple of days ago my brother-in-law and sister delivered a Pepsi machine to me here at my business. He is a marine and has been on inactive duty, the guard for the past 10 years since his four year active enlistment ended. He was in the first Gulf War with Iraq, went to Kosovo a couple of times for more than one year most recently as 2004. After Hurricane Katrina he spent several months in Louisiana with the Indiana National guard.

I love my sister dearly. I love her entire family. They are my family. I have seen the sacrifices she and her family have made over the years. He has a strong since of duty and a loyal relationship with God. They both do. He and they are American hero's. It is people like him and her and their children that defend our freedoms and way of life. Whether just a job or a calling the benefactors of their commitment is us American citizens.

I hope and I pray that we American citizens fight to hold onto the democracy they have helped keep alive up until now.

I hope and I pray that we American citizens will remember how important it is to show respect to them, our soldiers, our hero's by continuing to fight for the civil liberties that our fore fathers helped to grant us.

I hope and I pray that we American citizens wake up and realize that we have been scared to death. We have been "feared" to death. We have lost sight of the value of the freedoms that our soldiers risk their lives for on a daily basis. We must protect our constitution as if we have nothing more important to us in the world not even our own lives.

Now is not the time for complacency.
Now is the time for engagement.
Now is the time for hope.
Now is the time for new beginnings.

As we celebrate our freedom with fireworks let's also celebrate our democracy and inspire family, friends and strangers alike to vote Democrat in the mid term elections November 2006 to bring back some checks and balances to our government.

We the people, not Democrats or republicans but
We the people must unite on the common ground of freedom to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

We can make it happen by voting Democrat in the mid term elections!