Freedom and Liberty

December 25, 2007 

A Ticket To Somewhere

I was hangin’ round the station

without a place to go.

Waitin’ for some revelation…

Wond’ring why my life’s been so low.

Then a stranger asked a question

that hadn’t entered my mind.

Turned out to be the best one

I could find.

“Would you like a ticket to somewhere?

You with no place to go.

Freedom’s waitin’ out there…

Don’t you know?

With a ticket to somewhere

you’ve got someplace to go.

Freedom’s really a place

you can know.”

So I walked up to the window;

looked th’ guy right in th’ eye.

I said, “Give me a ticket to somewhere…

a ticket before I die.

“Just a ticket to take me

far from the trouble I’m in.

Don’t give me a ticket

back to where I’ve been.”

Yes, I want a ticket to somewhere…

I’ve had no place to go.

Freedom’s waitin’ out there…

don’t you know?

We all need a ticket to somewhere.

We all need someplace to go.

Freedom’s there for us all,

don’t you know?

~ balladeer-8~

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Freedom and Liberty

Freedom and Liberty

September 16, 2007

We have just observed another anniversary of that terrible, never to be forgotten day of infamy and attack… not only upon America — the ever-lasting bastion of Freedom for mankind… but truly an attack upon all people who love or want Freedom and Liberty all over this planet we all share.

Mr. Thomas Paine’s historic words carry forward with us into tomorrow’s hopes and yesterday’s memories. So, I include them once again… hoping to inspire all of us to seek and defend Freedom of Spirit and to fight for our Liberties through constant alertness, constant willingness to fight back!

“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”

Herewith, I present to you a slideshow of September 11, 2001 photos created by Ron Burch, August 2007. Many of these, you may never have seen before.

World Trade Center – 9-11-2001

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