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On Camp Bonifas near the Joint Security Area Visitor Center June 30, traditional Korean dancers and drummers dazzled an audience of U.S. and South Korea Soldiers and their families during a celebration of Freedom-Victory Day, held to mark the ninth anniversary of the stand-up of the South Korean army's United Nations Security Battalion. The unit, known as the Victory Battalion, was established July 1, 2004. The celebration featured live entertainment, bouncy houses, a dunk tank and a barbecue dinner, among other activities.
William Wallace: If this is your army, why does it go?
Soldier: We didn't come here to fight for them.
Soldier #2: The English are too many!
William Wallace: Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace.
Second Soldier: William Wallace is seven feet tall!
William Wallace: Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.
[Scottish army laughs]
William Wallace: I AM William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my country men, here, in defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?
Soldier: Against that? No, we'll run, and we'll live.
William Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live... at least for a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
(Braveheart Quote)
The First Amendment promises that American government will never endorse nor prohibit the freedom to exercise one’s religious beliefs.
On Camp Bonifas near the Joint Security Area Visitor Center June 30, traditional Korean dancers and drummers dazzled an audience of U.S. and South Korea Soldiers and their families during a celebration of Freedom-Victory Day, held to mark the ninth anniversary of the stand-up of the South Korean army's United Nations Security Battalion. The unit, known as the Victory Battalion, was established July 1, 2004. The celebration featured live entertainment, bouncy houses, a dunk tank and a barbecue dinner, among other activities.
Freedom Fest gates opened to crowds of Soldiers, Families and the Central Texas community. The event is open from 1-10 p.m. July 4. (U.S. Army photo by Dave Larsen, III Corps and Fort Hood Public Affairs)
The North San Diego County (NSDC) NAACP Branch 1086 held its 55th Celebration of Juneteenth; also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, and Liberation Day; on June 18th in downtown Oceanside, Calif. Juneteenth is an American holiday celebrated annually on June 19. It is the oldest, national commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the U.S. This year marks the 157th anniversary of when Union Major General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas, with the news that the Civil War ended and that enslaved people were now free. This announcement was more than two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth offers each of us the opportunity to acknowledge hard truths from U.S. history, celebrate the liberation of the enslaved ancestors of African Americans, and work together to advance racial healing, equity, and justice in our communities. This year is particularly notable with it designated as a federal holiday after over 156 years of its existence.
This year's event promoted the importance of education, contributions, and achievement. Those attending were treated to live entertainment, Food & Beverage Vendors, and Educational/ Community Information Outreach (including San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, City of Oceanside’s Fire and Police Departments, City of Oceanside Bookmobile, Veteran’s Administration Mobile Outreach Van, Free Health/Dental Screenings, Vaccine Station just to name a few).
The Freedom Museum (Dutch: Vrijheidsmuseum), until September 2019 National Liberation Museum 1944-1945, is a museum in Groesbeek about the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of World War II. The museum is located in Groesbeek, near the German border.
The building, in the shape of a parachute, was built to commemorate the Rhineland Offensive and the airdrop of thousands of Allied paratroopers on the fields of Groesbeek during Operation Market Garden.
~In reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future
Jon Krakaue
President Mahinda Rajapaksa joined the “Rata Rakina Nil Pavura - Surakimu Mawbima” conference organized by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party's Colombo City's branches yesterday (Aug. 30) Viharamahadevi Park.
ඊයේ (අගෝ. 30) කොළඹ විහාරමහාදේවි එළිමහන් පිඨයේ පැවැත්වූ "රට රකින නිල් පවුර - සුරකිමු මව්බිම" ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ කොළඹ නාගරික බල ප්රදේශයේ ආසන නියෝජිත මහ සම්මේලනයට ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාද සහභාගී විය.
நேற்று (அகஸ்ட் 30) கொழும்பு விஹாரமஹாதேவி பூங்காவில் நடைபெற்ற ஸ்ரீலங்கா சுதந்திர கட்சி கொழும்பு நகர பிரதிநிதிகளின் மகாநாட்டில் ஜனாதிபதி மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ் அவர்களும் கலந்துகொண்டார்.
(Photos by: Chandana Perera)
Last Wednesday we played tourists in Philadelphia with my brother in law, and his girlfriend visiting from California. I was reminded yet again of what lies in my own back yard (so to speak). I have walked by the Liberty Bell, located by Independence Hall hundreds of times. This is the birthplace of the United States we are talking about. How easily we walk about, concerned with the trivialities of our modern lives, and forget what came before us. I was humbled for a few hours at the magnitude of my good fortune, and also by my ignorance of the same. I know the Liberty Bell is a symbol of freedom and that it is cracked, but beyond that my memory was vague. As I read the signage some of the history came back to me, but I was completely unaware that a replicate bell forged in 1915, was used to promote women's suffrage. Shame on me. So, as I have struggled this past week with my same old issues, I am trying to remember how much I have. It is enough.
This is a shot I took for my freedom project. I'm not really sure what I'm doing yet, I'm just gathering ideas...
I think it's a self explaintory piece.
Freedom is a state of mind, when you feel safe to do what you love doing, and you have someone along for the ride...there's nothing like it.
Freedom last but a shortened time.
Freedom is that feeling you get as a child standing at the end of your driveway, staring down the road until the sky eats it up. Something inside you screams enough! Then you run. It seems like you will NEVER run out of breath. Looking back is not an option. I ran into the sky's mouth not thinking. I got lost, but I liked it. If I wasn't hungry for my camera I would have ran away forever just to shout I'M FREE, where nobody can hear me but the birds and the grass and the flowers.
How far will you go?
Freedom - the sculpture - designed by Thomas Crawford in 1855 to symbolize "Freedom triumphant in War and Peace", stands atop the US Capitol dome in Washington, DC. This particular reproduction can be found in Freedom Park in Rosslyn, VA.
Freedom, photograph by participant, HMP Greenock, copyright National Galleries of Scotland, Craig MacLean and Motherwell College 2010. MUST BE CREDITED.
The 2009 Lenexa Freedom Run was held Friday, July 4th in Historic Old Town Lenexa.
The 5K winners were Clifton Campbell of Laporte, CO with a time of 15:43 and
Kristen Gillespie of Shawnee Mission, KS with a time of 18:12.
The 10K winners were Bret Imgrund of Shawnee Mission, KS with a time of 31:42 and Laura Eakin of Commerce City, CO with a time of 39:15.