Tens of millions of American have worn the uniform, more than a miliion Americans have died in the service of this nation, yet our demise appears to be coming from our elected officials. by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Monday, May 30th, flags will fly at half-mast for the more than one million Americans who have died in the service of their nation. And yet, the real threat to the Constitution and to the American Dream does not reside overseas. Only the secession of the South rivals the present day threat we Americans face, the threat of uncontrolled power in Washington, D.C. Whether it be guarding our national border to prevent drug smuggling, illegal immigration of the passage of terrorists into our nation, to abortion, the Courts have replaced the will of the majority of the American people. Instead of being neutral and objective arbiters of the Constitution, the Justices of the Supreme Court have become one of the centers of gravity of political power in what is called the United States of America.
Liberty, which was to be the core of this land, and the highest priority of government has been replaced by the materialistic concerns of myriad special interests. Opportunity is to be replaced by a gauranteed result, control is to replace freedom.
America is clearly in decline. We are no longer the leader of the free world. We are no longer needed to be. Instead, we are one of almost two hundred nations on the planet. And our nation is being devoured by globalism, unfair trade practices towards the United States, an exodus of American jobs, an influx of illegal drugs, and unimited spending by the federal government. Education has replaced work as the central American core value. Not education based on practicality and private sector employment, but education to create a new diverse culture where the nationhood of America is reduced to nothing more than a sports team logo. The values of the Christian God and the Bible have been banished from the American classroom, thus severely hampering the development of well rounded, moral perspective.
Memorial Day is the ultimate insult to those Americans who died in our previous wars, because it so clearly jux ta poses the values of an earlier time and the sacrifices of those veterans who died in defense of America, with the America which exists today. The men who put on the uniform did not do so to allow 50 million abortions. They did not go overseas so that generation after generation could become welfare dependent. They did not put on the uniform so that the nation could be overwhelmed by an invasion of 20 million illegal immigrants.
In the past Memorial Day was meant to honor those who fought and died for this nation. But on this Memorial Day, it might be the souls who have crossed over who are mourning today's America. It may be the American hero on the other side of the great divide who sheds a tear for what once was, and for the peril facing America today. That peril is not in some foreign nation across the sea planning the destruction of the United States. The most serious peril is not in some clay hut in the Arab world planning a terrorist act. The greatest peril to America resides in the very halls of our own Congress and White House. Whether it be Obama Care, or Cap and trade, or international corporations, or the ruling elite, the greatest threat to America is the rewriting of American history to eliminate the original foundations of this nation, traditional family, Bible, hard work, saving, liberty, rule of the majority, and replace them with socialist goals, redistribution of wealth, government dependence, and human secualrism.
There is a need to remember our veterans who died for this nation, but even more there is a need to remember why the soldiers of the American Revolution fought! What did the soldiers in both Blue and Gray fight for? What were the world wars and the Cold War about? What has made America so unique?
All civilized nations honor their war dead. Not all civilized nations can see the hand of God in their creation and in their most important successes. America can.
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