My Veterans Day Wish

Over the years, countless people have thanked me for my service to the country.  When this happens, I always think, “I pray I can count on yours.”

Abraham Lincoln presciently said that no “transatlantic giant” would ever cross the oceans and defeat us, but rather, “if [danger] ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

This death by suicide is happening right in front of our eyes and the military cannot stop it – intervention must come by the voice of the people.  This is the service I pray I can count on from the patriotic citizens of this country that I love.

Our liberties are steadily decreasing with the ever expanding role of government. The wise warning of Ronald Reagan on communist expansion across the globe is equally applicable to the governmental expansion occurring amongst us:

"We're at war [ideologically] with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars [i.e. socialism under any other name], and it's been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers."

"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.   This is the issue… Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves."

My wish this Veterans Day wish is that all citizens who love liberty, revere the constitution and appreciate the blood sacrificed freely by those past and present to preserve it from foreign powers, will rise to the occasion and cease not to raise their voices in its defense by all means available until the socialist tide is turned and our constitutional liberties are restored to their original standing.