Rambiling

I just joined a group on Flicker tittled "Freedom". The object of the group is to post pictures that one believes expresses freedom. There are pictures of just about everything from half naked women to airliners. The interesting thing is that their are over four thousand pictures in this group and they are all different. Everyone wants to be free, the only question is what they think that is and what they are willing to pay for it. I was asked once how I could have spent twenty years of my life in the Army and given up all that freedom. My reply was that I didn't feel I had given up much freedom over that time. True, I couldn't say what I thought at all times, but twenty years latter I could lose my job or at least be reprimanded if I spoke my mind all the time. In the Army I had to wear the uniform of the day, mostly fatigues or BDUs, but now I still have to dress appropriately for work. We all give up freedom in the effort to earn a living, and just to live in the PC society.