Hope Rides Alone
Sergeant Eddie Jeffers
By Frank Salvato
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Our thoughts and prayers go out tonight to our colleagues at Frank Salvato’s New Media Journal:
It is with a very heavy heart and swollen eyes from the tears that I inform you all that one of our fellow writers, Sgt. Eddie Jeffers who was serving in Ramadi, Iraq, was killed today. He was patriot, humble, kind and dedicated to his mission, his country, his family and his faith.
Sgt. Jeffers was the author of Hope Rides Alone. It was one of the biggest articles we have ever published.
I ask you all to read it again. Digest it. Feel it. And then offer up a thought or a prayer for Sgt. Jeffers, Eddie. And then one for his family.
http://www.newmediajournal.us/guest/e_jeffers/print/02012007.htm
As for me, this loss makes me only more determined to champion the right cause, the cause of freedom and liberty for all, everywhere.
In the words of Abraham Lincoln:
“What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties, without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, every where. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
God bless the Jeffers Family and God speed to Eddie.
Frank Salvato
Managing Editor
The New Media Journal
NMJ Radio
Frank Salvato is the managing editor for New Media Journal. He serves at the Executive Director of the Basics Project, a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(C)(3) research and education initiative. His pieces are regularly featured in over 100 publications both nationally and internationally. He has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, and is a regular guest on The Right Balance with Greg Allen on the Accent Radio Network, as well as an occasional guest on numerous radio shows coast to coast. He recently partnered in producing the first-ever symposium on the threat of radical Islamist terrorism in Washington, DC. His pieces have been recognized by the Japan Center for Conflict. He can be contacted at oped@newmediajournal.us
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