What Price Freedom?

            Freedom is defined asLiberty of the person from slavery, detention, or oppression.? In such a statement, it can nearly be assumed that this privilege would be granted to every man and woman walking the earth. However, such a fantasy could never be achieved without struggle, restrain, desire, dreaming, and bloodshed. Soldiers have gone down in war, men and women have fallen to the persecution of abominable tyrants, and our forefathers struggled against formalities to achieve what they truly were entitled to: salvation. In man's ultimate hunger for equality, the cost of salvation from persecution has been a large one, indeed. But what price can be placed on a nation's right for freedom?.
             The payments made in the past have truly been colossal ones. The literal definition of freedom was stated, but in order to define the United States? freedom as a whole, one must look into the Constitution, where our independence as a nation and our independence as a people are stated boldly. As a result of this much controversial document, we have the right to bear arms as well as the freedom to speak what we believe, among many others. Our rights are unquestionably plentiful, yet they did not appear in such fashion without a motive.
             It is men and women's disposition to ultimately make decisions for themselves and choose their own trials in life. The price for such a privilege can be considered beyond human comprehension. The tears shed, the sweat perspired, the struggle withstood, and the blood spilled are all examples of human striving for sovereignty. The Revolutionary War revolved around the colonies? hunger to break the British barriers. Soldiers laid down their lives for the freedom of their nation and the freedom of those future generations. A costly price, indeed.
             On occasion, death was not an option for those who were held prisoner for governmental information. Such was the instance for John McCain.