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Superman's product of the century (so far):
Hindrocket over at Powerline makes one of those beautiful, transcendant statements in his Happy Thanksgiving post. Please go read those words, they cannot be improved upon.
I am thankful as well that as we have prepared and have begun to participate in this holiday, we have men and women in Iraq and around the world who have been taking it to the terrorists - where the terrorists live - and I'm over here loosening my belt a notch or two.
It is the embrace of those God-given rights Hindrocket writes about that called our nation to freedom. As well, that same embrace calls many from among us to serve in our military - and, in some cases, to freshen our freedom with their blood. For me it makes this Thanksgiving more solemn when I remember young men like Joshua Palmer or the twenty-two young men who gave their lives in Fallujah and Baghdad in the last couple of weeks.
"No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends."
How can we be thankful to God enough for people like that?
UPDATE: We had 'open mike' sharing in church on Sunday - the 28th. I briefly shared about First Lieutenant Palmer, the 22 marines written about in the story above, and the verse from John's gospel. I was overwhelmed with gratitude for the many lives in dedicated service to our noble cause. It was especially poignant to me that these men and women who serve count all of us as a friend worth that level of sacrifice.
I am thankful to tears that the great American ideal of freedom is newly freshened by the blood of these patriots and I gain a more heartfelt perspective - as I contemplate that many families received the bodies of their sons for Thanksgiving last week - about the God of the universe sacrificing his Son, his only Son for us.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has a great summary list of thankful posts.
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