Show Freedom Essay This is the first place winner in the senior division for District 2 of the American Legion EDDIE is a senior at High Dorothy Willey essay By EDDIE To freedom means several things-freedom of of of Without these freedoms this country would be in utter It seems that we never miss something until it is taken THESE freedoms should not be among those We should all realize the importance of them before they are taken I remember in the paper about a year ago an incident at a junior high school in A group of men went into the school and took depriving all students of their THEY could not talk at had to march to the and some had to do K.P. duty in the lunch room as in the Some were segregated by by skin and were denied rights Others were confined to their desks all day without When it was all it was don't think there was a dry eye in the Surely these students realize now what they have and appreciate it I ALSO remember a man who was In Idaho preaching He was telling his which were how the United States was no no one could do By United States a person can preach whatever he I felt like telling him that he should that no one was forcing him to stay in this Though I resented what he was saying and disagreed with i realized the importance of his right to say WITHOUT freedom we would have no local newspapers but only the government controlled ones that print what they want us to hear and Without freedom there could be no independent radio and television The government would seize controls and broadcast what they wanted us to There could be no books or magazines printed without the consent of government Surely nobody wants this in THE NEXT time you feel fed up with think about these freedoms I have Ask yourself if you think your rights are infringed 1 hope you realize what you have and value it before it is too And the United with all its is the freest nation on earth as long as the Stars and Stripes fly and still mean these |