11/11/2021
This letter my son wrote in 2018 is what inspired me to come up with my new business.
RYAFF
RAISE YOUR AMERICAN FLAG FOREVER.AMERICA UNITED WE STAND.
AMERICA DIVIDED WE FALL.
HELP UNITE AMERICA AGAIN.
RYAFF THANKS TO ALL VETERANS AND ESPECIALLY THE ONES WHO PAID THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE.
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.
In our country’s present state, there stands a great divide between the people. That divide is the greatest threat to our national security that we have ever faced; and yet, we refuse to face or regard it as something of significance.
When this country was founded, it was done so by everyday people. The names we most commonly associate with patriotism and the fight against tyranny – John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington – belonged to men who lead the everyday lives of lawyers, plantation owners, scientists, and military leaders, respectively. Their varying livelihoods created differences among them that caused conflict between them during their time in political office. But they did not consider these conflicts so great that they would render political discourse inoperable and compromise unachievable. Their ability to compromise on issues of politics and find common understanding is what allowed them to stand against the greatest empire the world had ever seen and bring forth a new nation founded on the principle that we the people have certain God-given rights which government must not impede if it is to remain just.
One of those liberties endowed to us by our Creator is the right to disagree with others and freely express that disagreement through means displayed in the First Amendment of our Constitution. Unfortunately, we the people often utilize that God-given liberty as a means of emphasizing the petty differences that exist between us as individuals, rather than utilize it to advocate for democracy and maintain our Republic, as the Founders intended. It is well-known that the men who brought forth this nation wanted its people to have the capacity to publicly voice their grievances without punishment. Because they knew that to deny that right would be to commit to the same practices of the tyrannical empire that they had been warring against. But one underlying reason the Founders were so adamant not to infringe on the right of free speech, I think, is that they also knew that sometimes the only way to unite people under a common cause is to allow them to voice what causes they don’t align with.
With that said, God gave us the right by means unknown to man, the Founders protected it through the Constitution; and we are the ones who must use it every day of our lives. So, why do I want to attend a military academy? I want to attend a military academy of these United States because I believe it will prepare me far more than any other institution to not only protect the rights and values the people of this country hold dear; but also use them myself to benefit the people. It will give me the incentive to work at finding commonality in a population so wrought with voices of conflict and discrepancy. It will provide me with hope, by giving me brotherly bonds beyond comprehension with my fellow soldiers, of all different backgrounds and ethnicities, that among all those voices there is common ground to be found; and if I find it and advocate for it, from whatever position I find myself in after graduating from an academy. I aspire to see this nation grow and prosper as a prime example of a country with a unified populace and legislature that is structured around the interest of that populace.
Written by Kitt J Kalscheur Jr.
Edited by Charles Webb III
