It’s supposed to be a wonderful day all day around here – I hope the forecast is the same for your area.
I guess it was Saturday evening we saw a very moving documentary of WW II before and after done by the North Carolina ETV people. And as one who lived through the war years from Pearl Harbor to the Armistice signing in Tokyo Bay I will testify it brought back feelings of concern and anger as well as relief and then the suffering that brought it all on again with a longer conflict called the Korean ‘conflict’ that went on five years – again with much loss of life and pain and suffering.
There were friends of mine from college days who did not come back from that ‘conflict.’ I assert it was so embarrassing to the higher-ups to have a “WAR” break out just five years after the ‘Peace Treaty’ had been signed on the deck of an American battleship, under the scowl of General Douglas MacArthur, and gave war such a bad name the conflict in South Vietnam got no name at all… and greatly depressed the morale of the military who fought at the bidding of America’s high command. So much so made even talking about that war difficult for the veterans – and ended many a military man’s dream of being a heroic soldier. We almost covered the whole thing with a white sheet.
The Secretary of Defense felt he could control the battlefield from the White House ‘situation room’ – the President believed he could by force of personality do away with the count of body-bags… but wars don’t end well that way.
Now America has been attacked at home in it’s biggest city and terrible manner with the swiping of three airplanes that by their crashing killed more Americans… and the overpowering of the perpetrators, a large number of Americans probably saved another thousand or two casualties on the ground in New York or Washington. Ten years later we are still staggering from that blow – and despite the best intelligence and other quasi-military efforts we have three armed ‘conflicts going on a-pace in the middle east – with casualties greatly reduced from Korean and Vietnam days – yet still we are under the threats of America’s armed and difficult enemies.
What is the solution?
We wish we knew and possibly the changes that must come are being forced upon us economically as well as militarily. At least we must come to think of things in that frame – and it’s not comfortable to contemplate.
That has been complicated further by America’s slipping educational and moral climate – too long to explore extensively here… but in the wake of our Memorial Day attention – it needs a rejuvenation of the spirit that brought America to its place in the world’s leadership – and a hard and fair examination of our own efforts to see where we have – even perhaps inadvertently – ‘let slip the dogs of war.’
This will have to be continued and carefully examined in better and more extensive workshop than I and my friends here are able to mount. It, in fact will have to be a total reorganizing and re-evaluating – which I don’t believe is beyond our capabilities – but it is certainly not going to be done without calling upon the One who made this old world in the first place… and I’ll call a halt there for today – intending to come back and do whatever is within my reach or within the unlimited will of the Lord. I look forward to being with you all as we take steps in that direction.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
“JUST A MINUTE”
Just a Minute: The
Peggy Noonan, a gifted writer, says Rep. Paul Ryan, skilled budget crafter, has made “unsustainable” the essential word of this decade.
Alan Simpson, retired Republican Senator says: You can’t run to
Robert Gates, departing Secretary of Defense, in a speech last week said “The entitlement state is crowding out the
Mark Heparin – philosopher and author – “We need to make our enemies understand at the deepest level … if we are attacked – we will be quick, and you will be dead.”
A biblical passage here translates “quick” as “living” -- “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Applying this truth could cure suffering. <>I’m Jack Buttram.
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