Counting the Cost: How Many Americans Died for Freedoms We Now Debate?
Freedom asks for proof. In this kingdom, the evidence has names chiseled in marble, crosses and stars in rows, headstones set so tight you may see geometry from the air. We like to argue about rights as if they are abstractions circling above us, however the invoice for the ones rights become paid in blood, bone, frostbite, and the kind of courage that cracks your voice once you attempt to describe it. Walk a countrywide cemetery at daybreak and you will pay attention yo