Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground. Mother Earth will swallow you. Lay your body down.
Stephen Stills
When Canadian Stephen Stills wrote those words (above), it was after the deaths of King, Kennedy, and four Kent State students. Back then, those deaths excepted, the “cost of freedom” in the west was primarily marching and screaming in protest. Sadly, freedom in the west costs a lot more now, because Russia’s invaded Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s…