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Years ago, when I was in 8th grade (today's "middle school") an English teacher asked a question I re-visit often. In those days of wooden ships, iron men, and dinosaurs, English teachers were also expected to serve as philosophers, to prepare students for life, and to ask thought-provoking questions about values, morality, and the costs of the freedom we enjoy as a part of our great good fortune.

I find it sad to think the question I was asked as part of my public education, one a 13 or 14-year-old could answer without hesitation, is not asked, nor considered in our teacher's union run schools today - - "What do you consider worth dying for?"

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