Our Leaders Have Failed Us

It’s the soldier not the reporter who has given us freedom of the press. It’s the soldier not the poet who has given us freedom of speech. It’s the soldier not the campus organizer who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It’s the soldier who solutes the flag. It’s the soldier who serves beneath the flag. It’s the soldier whose coffin is draped by the flag, which allows some self righteous ungrateful spoiled protester to burn the flag.