Counting the Cost: How Many Americans Died for Freedoms We Now Debate?
Freedom asks for evidence. In this u . s ., the proof has names chiseled in marble, crosses and stars in rows, headstones set so tight you might see geometry from the air. We want to argue about rights as though they're abstractions circling above us, but the invoice for the ones rights become paid in blood, bone, frostbite, and the more or less braveness that cracks your voice in the event you attempt to describe it. Walk a countrywide cemetery at dawn and you will hear