Stand Up.

This is the time.  

This is when everyone either pushes through and becomes a champion or when they curl up and hope they survive to the end of the fight. Which will you be? a dying soldier who made a fatal slip and gave up? Or the one who slipped, but then got up and kept fighting?

  'Cause that's the difference.  Picking yourself up.  If you can't get up and keep going then you will lose. Simple as that.  Heck, you might still lose! But, going with the soldier analogy: 

Dying in a blaze of glory, fighting your hardest, breaking a way for the rest of the army to get though... That's not a loss. That's a win. That's something that will be told of for thousands of years, written of in epics and used as inspiration for struggling men everywhere. 

So which will you be?  A statistic? Just one of the 7000 wounded?

 Or will you be the Hero? The one who lead the charge and helped win the fight? 

As for me, I don't know if I 'll "live" per say, but dang it, I'm going to go down fighting. 

From here: http://sebadorn.deviantart.com/art/Kneeling-Knight-Colored-141746435
found it on a Google image search...  (The guy is super talented. :D )

Patriotism.

We must be patriotic, remember what we fight for. And not just "remember" but we must DO something. we can't just sit there. And, while most times when people think of patriotism they think of patriotism to the country that we live in now, we must also remember the country that we have lived in for so much longer. The kingdom of God. Thomas Jefferson once said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Now, while there are some aspects to this I don't like, it's relevant to what I'm talking about. We must act, we must rekindle the fires in people. If we live without the awakenings then we do not live. While sometimes people need to see the loss before they will do anything, sometimes we must feel the power of God for us to be energized. we can not constantly feel the spirit super powerfully, it goes up and down. But these cycles of the spirit are like the blood on the liberty tree, it reawakens us. And through many of these reawakanings we can come closer to god.