Until It's Gone

 

All too often, we take for granted what we have here in the good ole US of A, like...  well, for one, FREEDOMS.

We have many freedoms such as: freedom of speech, school, religion, protesting, gender, hair, clothes, songs, location, marriage, children, education, homes, vehicles, work...  and the list goes on and on and on.

Believe it or not, most of the people in other parts of the world do not have anywhere near the volume of freedoms that we have.

We must go to public school or private school K-12, but we get to decide which one I attend.  If transportation is not provided because of my choice, I must find my own transportation.

Once accepted, we can attend any college or university we want.

We can decide or not decide to enter the military when we reach the age of acceptance.

We are free to marry whoever we want and change our gender from male to female.

HOWEVER...

we often forget how we got and kept those freedoms...

someone in the USA went to war so that we could have the freedom we enjoy today.

WWI and WWII and Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan are some of the wars we have engaged in to keep those freedoms.

In many middle eastern countries, Russia, China, and a few others in the world, they have none of the freedoms that we have.

In some countries, the government owns all the land and all the companies, and it is the government who decides where you will live and what type of place you will live in.  It is the government who decides what you can buy at the grocery store and how much it will cost regardless of the demand.

Those of us who have freedoms, have no idea what life would be like if those freedoms were taken away from us.