Dean's World

I, too, pray that I would have the guts to risk or give my life for freedom as these did, as our brave solders have done and are doing now. Freedom is indeed more precious than life, is all that makes life worth living. As the old proverb goes, 'tis better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. "Lever doodt als slkav" ("Better dead than slave") was the old peasant-saying of the ancient Frisians, who worshipped the Goddess Friagabi (Giver of Freedom). That has been the creed of every healthy civilization, and the reverse has been the creed of every dying civilization.

We must never forget, nor forgive, the tragedy of the Chinese in Tianenmen Square, of the Czechs in 1968, of the Hungarians in 1956, of the Poles throughought so much of their noble and tragic history. Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland -- now free. Poland, free, Catholic Poland, at long last free from the slavery imposed by a once-Communist Russia -- and from the iron heel of Prussia. It took two World Wars to free Europe from the iron heel of the Godless Prussian, but finally we did. Hail to free, Catholic Poland! HAIL TO THE QUEEN OF ALL EVIL....!!!!