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Juneteenth Day

ajqtrz

Chef - loquacious Old Dog
Tomorrow is Juneteenth. We celebrate, and should celebrate this day. For in Galveston, Texas, one hundred fifty-five years ago, Union General Gordon Granger arrived with 2000 Union soldiers and told the slaves there "you are free, free at last." Their freedom, long, long, overdue, was paid for in the blood, sweat and tears of a nation torn apart by four long bloody years of war. Whether that blood price was enough to to recompense over 300 years of cruel and inhumane treatment only God knows. But it was a payment. It was in the blood of men and women that the first, and only the first, chapter in God's Book of Freedom was written. And while we hope and pray the next chapter will be written without bloodshed, it will be written. That God's Book of Freedom is not finished we know. That it will be finished some day, we hope and pray. That we should be the ones to pick up our pens and to write the next chapter, we acknowledge. Today, one-hundred and fifty-five years later, there are still many in bondage. The bondage of abject poverty, of ignorance, of hatred, addiction and despair. So to us, who are free, to us falls the duty of continuing the Book of Freedom. Peacefully if we can, in blood if we must, let us pen the next chapter. And let us continue writing until, finally, someday, we arrive at the last bastion of slavery and say to all who are there "you are free, free at last." Then we shall lay down our pens and finish the great work we began writing one-hundred and fifty-five years ago, June 19th, 1865.

AJ
 
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