(December 22, 2009 at 8:09 am)chatpilot Wrote: "If you can read this -Thank a teacher! If you can read this in English thank a soldier!!!"
Clearly a reference to how we won our independence and are not ruled by any foreign nation. We are not a common wealth or subject to the Queen or the any dictators or foreign rulers. We are the United States of America and our primary language is English and we have our soldiers to thank for those things. Soldiers are credited with giving us all of the freedoms we enjoy today at the price of life and blood.
For very many people in originally non English speaking countries too I fear.
'Thank' is never what comes to mind. Sadness at the futility yeah.