The Importance of Freedom

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The Importance of Freedom

By Tarek Nigam

Many of us take freedom for granted. Many of us tend to forget the hardships and sacrifices our forefathers of freedom went through. Many of us fail to cherish and value our granted freedom. Many of us do not apprehend the full meaning of freedom. However, a few among the society realize the value of such a bestowment. Our Freedom today exists as of the actions of those who believed that it was a necessity to live by and disallowing it is a relic of days more barbarous than ours.

But those mere sentences will never illustrate to us the hardships and rigorous tasks undertaken to give us our freedom. At a time many of our forefathers took up arms and faced the forces of oppression for our freedom. They entered battles in which they were victorious and prevailed over oppression. They entered battles that went horribly awry and were defeated. However, their actions are not another blank page in a book. Their actions have been inked, remembered, and praised.

For instance, the Iraqi insurgency is a cause of American occupation. The Iraqis