Freedom has a price

On Tuesday April 22, of this past week, I went to our monthly meeting of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) in Fayetteville. This is a wonderful organization of men who have traced their lineage back to those who were a part of America’s very birth as a nation. I am proud in the best sense to be a part of them.

These men have the very blood in their veins of the American Revolution and the desire in their hearts to continue all that is right about American, and her character and values. May their honorable cause live forever!

For those who may not know, there is a sister organization of the women who also trace their lineage back to our American Revolution. These brave women are the “Daughters of The American Revolution,” (DAR). It was from the (DAR) at the (SAR) meeting that we heard for this “call to arms in prayer.“ We learned that Sgt. Kevin Downs is recovering in Brooks Army Medical Center from multiply wounds to his young body.

In keeping with both the DAR and the SAR’s continued desire to serve, we had a honorable but very sad “call to arms in prayer”

I print this for all who love freedom and our way of life. On this Easter, as many of us will be going to our respective places of worship honoring the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus of Nazareth, please uphold in earnest prayer Sgt. Kevin Downs and his family, and the families of all of Kevin’s crew who died in the same attack and will not make it to their Easter celebrations. Please also ask your pastors to read this letter to their congregations.

Please also take time to take the address at the bottom of the letter and go buy a card and have your family all sign it as our way of saying thank you for your service to this honorable and in my opinion holy calling in defense of our freedoms in this terrible War on Terror.

Freedom is never free and never will be until Christ returns to give mankind true freedom and make the crooked places straight.

“Dear Friends;

There is a young soldier named Sgt. Kevin Downs. He was blown out of his tank in Baghdad a year ago and left with no feet, mangled arms and burns over 60 percent of his body. He is a Tennessee boy. Everyone else in the tank was killed. His condition is not good.

A surgery to improve the use of fingers on one hand inadvertently caused previous skin grafts to break down, and the grafts on his legs are cracking as well and may require beginning over at square one. Kevin is tired and low in spirits. He needs our prayers and support through cards.

Would you please send him a note or card to let him know that you are thinking about him? Remember him in your prayers as well. Now I am going to ask a special favor. Would you please send this to as many people that you can in your email addresses? I would love to see him get cards from everywhere and hopefully he will know that people all over the country appreciate him leaving the safety of his home and country and fighting for our freedoms.”

His address is:
Sgt. Kevin Downs
Brooke Army Medical Center
3851 Roger Brooke Drive
Fort Sam Houston, Tx. 78234