The 2023 Freedom Award recipients will join an impressive list of previous honorees who have each made unique contributions to the defense and sharing of the traditional American values of God, family, freedom and country. Our recipients this year represent those who, feeling blessed themselves, have reached out to others in an effort to share the blessings of freedom. They understand that at times the basic human needs of food, shelter, and safety must first be met before the wider vision of freedom can be comprehended and embraced. There are those who risk their own lives in defending freedom for thousands whom they may never even meet face-to-face. And there are still others who are determined to keep alive the remembrance of the high price paid that we might live in a land of the free, and a home of the brave.