A Note of Gratitude
Thursday, May 15, 2008

My fellow readers,

It has been sometimes now since I have written, and for this I am sorry. As many know, amongst my fatherly duties and responsibilities toward my employer, I am also a student at Dallas Baptist University. The effort of furthering my education this semester kept me from attending to Heritage of Honor.

With that said, I would like to stand in sincere gratitude to the men and women fighting to preserve the liberties and freedoms which our great Lord has entrusted to this country. I would like to quote William Henry Seward, secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln from a letter he wrote to his nine year old son on October 7, 1848:


“It was by such sacrifice that liberty was obtained for the American people. How good and virtuous and just ought we to be and how thankful to God that we have blessings secured by the virtue and sufferings of our ancestors. I hope you will get Peter Parley’s history of the Revolution and ask Ma to read to you the account of the Revolution and then I hope you will resolve to be a good man like General Washington that all people may love and bless you” (Lawson 8).


As my wife’s brother has just been recently deployed to serve in Iraq, I am taken by this letter written over 150 years ago. I am deeply moved by the men volunteering to step out of this comfortable American life in order to preserve such. I am also taken by the example for which a father has given his nine year old son to live against. It is an example set by a man serving to protect his future generations, just as the people serving our country today.

For all you who are serving this county, my family whole heartedly thanks you for your sacrifice, endurance, suffering, and courage. We pray for your protection. You are leading by example. You are showing future generations how to be men of God, protectors of liberty and faith, just as the men before you.


List of works cited:

Lawson, Dorie McCullough. Posterity. New York: DoubleDay, 2004.

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1 comments:

Tracy said... 9/04/2008 9:13 AM  

Thanks for sharing the William Henry Seward, quote, I appreciated being able to read it.

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