[Hoot Gibson]

This is what tyranny looks like. Metaphors, hate speech, and "divisiveness" are defined by the tyrants in power. The cost of free speech in this country is apparently a free cell phone. Veterans Day is an appropriate time to give thanks to those who shed blood and dodged bullets to preserve our liberty for more than 200 years, so their efforts were not in vain.

However, despite the contributions of millions of military veterans, my grandparents' generation was the last one spared the experience of a tyranny. The rest of us can only imagine what true freedom was like.