<p><img src="images/stories/OAKI-logo.png" border="0" alt="The Oak Initiative" align="left" />President Reagan once said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”<br /> <br />            Furthermore, the noted British philosopher Edmund Burke reminded us over 200 years ago that “those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." If we are to pass the freedoms we’ve enjoyed as Americans to the next generation of children and grandchildren, who will only inherit the America we give them, we would be wise to heed the warnings given by Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, and countless others throughout history.<br /> <br />            Freedom is not free. To sustain it, someone must be willing to pay the price for it—just like our fathers, grandfathers, and great grandfathers did for us, and like many of our sons, daughters, and neighbors are proudly willing to do today. Shockingly, while some cannot accept that socialism and its nearest kin, communism, is a present threat to America, others seem all too willing to sit by while the liberties and principles as defined in the Constitution are slowly being replaced with a political system most know little about. Let’s briefly examine this further.   <a href="http://www.theoakinitiative.org/oak-leaf-29"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">READ</span></span></strong></a></p>