Tomorrow is Memorial Day. It is supposed to be a near-sacred event; a day on which we remember fallen soldiers who died in wars as they fought for our country, and rightfully we should. I had a distant cousin who died in a Japanese POW camp, and that after having survived what is called the Bataan Death March, a gruesome trek by captured American and Filipino soldiers who were forcibly marched about 65 miles in the Philippines. Those poor guys were subjected to torture and starvation and thousands of them would not complete the trip as they succumbed to the extreme conditions along the way. Cousin Willard certainly deserves a tribute on Memorial Day and several of us in the extended family have t-shirts with his portrait on them that we wear on Memorial Day in his honor.
As I contemplate what and who I need to remember along with my relative, I would like to remind readers of the earlier soldiers who fought for the beginning of this country. Those brave guys who were sure that the freedoms we have long enjoyed were worth fighting and dying for should get a special nod tomorrow, especially now that our country has reached a point where the Constitution for which they fought and for which their blood was spilled – is being methodically discarded by men who would never even dream of risking their necks – for anything, especially anything as intangible as principles. American citizens are being deported as I write this for exercising their freedom of speech which is enshrined in the First Amendment to that Constitution.
Our Constitution, a set of principles for which many have died and to which all of our “leaders” have sworn to protect, is being systematically dismantled by men who wield their cowardice as publicly and treacherously as our forebears wielded their swords and muskets. Pathetic interlopers who have arrogated to themselves undeserved positions of authority and power never intended to be held by authoritarians. That’s what the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is all about. Our Constitution was designed to protect the people of this republic from any and all forms of government that might determine to rule by authoritarian edict (or possibly Executive Orders?) – legislation by executive fiat that the Constitution never provided for.
A military of brave – perhaps the bravest of all – volunteers fought and won the freedom this republic required to exist and prosper. These men must be remembered too, though their remembrance may expose some truths about ourselves that could be unsettling, especially in light of the fact that we in this generation have stood by and watched wealthy people devise methods of purchasing positions of leadership and installing servants of anti-Christian foreign governments to fill them. We look on passively as bankers, political lobbies, and unelected charlatans completely take over our government and enslave us and our children. They kill presidents who disagree with them, destroy buildings full of people, force people to put poison into their bloodstreams, and we sheepishly obey, lest our Christian beliefs outweigh our fear of lesser men and we obey our Constitutional mandate to change things.
Maybe some semblance of American love of freedom will arise among the many patriotic men still worth their salt and change will be sought, but so far there’s not been much sign of it. All my life I was taught that the Nazis in Germany were the worst monsters in the world. Indeed, a big part of this Memorial Day remembrance is for the men who died in that war, but today we watch on in horror as another army of monsters who perform atrocities as bad if not worse than anything the Nazis did, but even our preachers in this country sheepishly tell us we should support such malevolence. This Memorial Day we should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing war criminals (foreign and domestic) to be exalted.
I’m pretty sure if the legal system had known of someone sharpening Ted Bundy’s knives and handing them to him to kill his victims, that person(s) would have been tried and no doubt found guilty of abetting murder. Joe Biden, Donald Trump, the Congress and Senate, and their government allies have been supplying bombs and other weapons to a country which is guilty – forget semantics, they are sickening – of murder, intentional starvation of non-combatants – and a host of war crimes. The highest court in the world – the International Criminal Court, has issued arrest warrants for the current Ted Bundys of the world, and what do our esteemed leaders do? Why, of course, they attack the court and accuse it of contrived and distorted political leanings. Imagine how well that defense would have gone over with Bundy in his trial, but because the US has a powerful military and a lot of wealthy people protecting Zionist atrocities, this cadre of execrable criminals do not answer, even to the highest court in the world.
Tomorrow let’s also remember the sacrifices of those guys who ridded us of colonialism here in America. The bravest of our heroes and our founding Fathers, but they would be ill to see what the nation has become – this nation they believed in and fought and died for. To get an idea of how far we have fallen as a nation, just imagine a serious comparison of the stature and wisdom of men like George Washington or Thomas Jefferson to entities like Trump or Shrub. Get real.
Happy Memorial Day.
MK