One of my elders forwarded this note. I share it with you. It's valuable.
Everyone has a different opinion on the war, and with our current President. But, this article makes a lot of sense, and I hope you will read it and give it some thought.
What a difference 60 years makes..!!!
'You ain't gonna like losing.'
Author unknown, but he should have been given the Medal of Honor for this:
President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism.
But the mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq . Bush's mistake came in his belief that this country is the same one his father fought for in WWII. It is not.
Back then, they had just come out of a vicious depression. The country was steeled by the hardship of that depression, but they still believed fervently in this country. They knew that the people had elected their leaders, so it was the people's duty to back those leaders.
Therefore, when the war broke out the people came together, rallied behind, and stuck with their leaders, whether they had voted for them or not or whether the war was going badly or not.
And war was just as distasteful and the anguish just as great then as it is today. Often there were more casualties in one day in WWII than we have had in the entire Iraq war. But that did not matter. The people stuck with the President because it was their patriotic duty Americans put aside their differences in WWII and worked together to win that war.
Everyone from every strata of society, from young to old pitched in. Small children pulled little wagons around to gather scrap metal for the war effort. Grade school students saved their pennies to buy stamps for war bonds to help the effort.
Men who were too old or medically 4F lied about their age or condition trying their best to join the military. Women doubled their work to keep things going at home. Harsh rationing of everything from gasoline to soap, to butter was imposed, yet there was very little complaining.
You never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the President. Interestingly enough in those days there were no fat cat actors and entertainers who ran off to visit and fawn over dictators of hostile countries and complain to them about our President. Instead, they made upbeat films and entertained our troops to help the troops'
morale. And a bunch even enlisted.
And imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started the day off with a Pledge of Allegiance, and with prayers for our country and our troops!
Back then, no newspaper would have dared point out certain weak spots in our cities where bombs could be set off to cause the maximum damage. No newspaper would have dared complain about what we were doing to catch spies.
A newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it had complained that German or Japanese soldiers were being 'tortured' by being forced to wear women's underwear, or subjected to interrogation by a woman, or being scared by a dog or did not have air conditioning.
There were a lot of things different back then. We were not subjected to a constant bombardment of pornography, perversion and promiscuity in movies or on radio. We did not have legions of crackheads, dope pushers and armed gangs roaming our streets.
No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling of terrorism. He made the mistake of believing that we still had the courage and fortitude of our fathers. He believed that this was still the country that our fathers fought so dearly to preserve.
It is not the same country. It is now a cross between Sodom and Gomorra and the land of Oz. We did unite for a short while after 9/11, but our attitude changed when we found out that defending our country would require some sacrifices.
We are in great danger. The terrorists are fanatic Muslims. They believe that it is okay, even their duty to kill anyone who will not convert to Islam. It has been estimated that about one third or over three hundred million Muslims are sympathetic to the terrorists cause...Hitler and Tojo combined did not have nearly that many potential recruits.
So...we either win it - or lose it - and you aren't going to like losing.
America is not at war. The military is at war.
America is at the mall...
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Teachers and Students still actually start the day off with a Pledge of Allegiance and with MANDATORY (Oklahoma Senate Bill 815) time given for prayers for our country and our troops and anything else students have it ont thier heart to pray for.
Schools also desire, welcome, and embrace people like "our fathers generation" - and their older children now - to commit time to mentoring and educating young people about our heritage and motivate them from the mall and into action.
If you bought into part, or all, of the posted letter, and want to know what you CAN DO, walk into your public elementary school. join the PTA, and make a real difference to a child.
So very sad, so very true.
Thanks for sharing this, Terry. Good stuff -- it really puts things in perspective.
I think we have to admit that this message is a little bit unfair because WWII and the Iraq War are extremely different wars being fought under extremely different circumstances.
My dad would have said "Amen" to that. His generation had the pride and courage to sacrifice for the good of their country and for so many in other countries because it was the right thing to do. Somewhere in the comfort and freedom that they bought for us we have lost our sense of what is right and wrong. I thank God that there are still young men and women who are willing to put themselves in harms way to defend us from those who would destroy all that we hold dear even as we sit here snug and safe and complain.
This letter was not unfair nor untrue. The sad fact is it is true and we aren't even honest enough to admit it. Evil is evil and the reason for this war might not be liked by anyone but we have to stand for what is right. We are living with generations of people not willing to be inconvenienced for any reason. It is amazing that we require a 15-20 minute sermon because thats all we can handle, a 30 minute sitcom that fills our minds with trash and many other things that "I want". May God have mercy on us for our lack of integrity. If only we believed Matt. 5:6 & 6:33.....but we would rather buy or watch ourselves another pacifier and then be happy..... at least for awhile.
Eddie
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