By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.com

Veterans Day.

A singular day set aside to honor those who have served this nation, the cause of freedom, liberty throughout the world and here at home.

One day, when we should all come together and offer our thanks to those who, throughout the decades and centuries, have preserved our freedom, our rights and our way of life.

Just one day?

No…

That’s simply not right.

Do we enjoy our liberty just one day of the year?

Do we live in freedom only on the 11th of November every year?

Are so many others, in far flung places around the world free for just a specific 24 hours according to a date on a calendar?

Certainly not.

Why then do we celebrate Veterans Day on only a single day?

Are our nation’s Veterans, both past and present not Veterans on the other 364 days of the year?

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014 was Veterans Day and sadly, far too many didn’t even know it while others only fleetingly paid their respects. A mention here, a thanks there, a post in social media. Yes, many do thank our men and women in uniform at every opportunity and thank those whom they meet who have served, whenever they can and THAT is exactly how it should be.

Every day.

Every time there is an opportunity.

Last weekend, David Mascriota, a liberal fool and agitator wrote a piece where he besmirched “Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes,” and wrote…”It’s been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must end.”

The title of this garbage piece was as follows…

“You don’t protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy.”

In his mind, not since WWII has the American soldier fought for freedom and, in his mind, not today’s soldiers, nor any since the end of WWII  protected his freedom.

The obvious question one should pose to Mascriota is…If not the soldiers…who DOES protect your freedom?

Who, Mascriota?

Politicians?

Professors?

Radicals who would rather advocate anarchy than a Constitutional Republic or those like yourself who just can’t see the necessity of a strong and ready military?

Were it not for those who serve, in wars or peace time, American would have ceased being free long ago and freedom around the world would have lost its best guardian.

Mascriota believes that regarding those who have served with honor, in the uniform of our nation as heroes…is childish and it must stop.

“Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism” he calls it.

Nobody here forces anything of the sort and patriotism is not compulsory…not in this country but there ARE countries where the MILITARY is used to do those very things. Sadly, David Mascriota and his foolish ilk can’t see the difference.

I would challenge the ilk of Mascriota to live their lives in places where the military doesn’t garner the respect or fear of our military or in some 3rd world hell hole where the military acts to deny freedom and liberty from the populous and DOES make “patriotism” compulsory. Let’s hear his take on our heroes then.

Those who deny the heroic actions of those willing to put their lives on the line for freedom and liberty simply don’t know the meaning of the word “hero.”

The few images that you have seen in this article are taken from a video.

A very special video.

The boy is 11 years old and his father took him to Normandy last June for the 70th anniversary of D-Day.

The 11 year old spent several days at the cemetery  teaching those who came to pay their respects about just three soldiers, paratroopers buried there…three soldiers whom he had researched but on D-Day itself, the local authorities would not allow him on the hallowed grounds.

So…what did he do?

He walked down to the beach. Omaha Beach. He unfurled an American flag in the stiff breeze and, gazing across the Channel, he stood at attention…the way his heroes did and he saluted…the way his heroes did.

That 11 year old boy…wearing a replica of a WWII, 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division uniform…just like the uniform of his heroes, stood there, at full attention, at full salute, for an hour and a half…

To honor his heroes.

In doing so, he not only honored those who served and died on Omaha Beach 70 years ago but he also honored those who served before and have served after that war.

Our heroes.

If patriotism and honoring our military by regarding those who have served with honor to protect our freedom and liberty is childish…so be it…as children so often see passed the addle minded nonsense of adults whose ideology is decidedly in opposition to the truth.

My heroes have always worn our nation’s uniforms.

They always will.

Even if they are but 11 years old.