Years ago, I sang a terrific song, “Freedom Isn’t Free.” The chorus rings in my memory even now: “Freedom isn’t free, freedom isn’t free
You’ve got to pay the price, you’ve got to sacrifice
For your liberty.” Subsequently, every Fourth of July, every Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day, I go out early in the morning to the vast Veteran’s Cemetery in Westwood, California. I walk alone between hundreds of rows of crosses and markers, covering many acres of rolling green hills. I read the names... Read More