ALMOST EVERY YOUNG MAN IN AMERICA WENT TO WAR FOR AMERICA FROM 1941 UNTIL 1945: THEY BECAME THE BACKBONE OF A NEW AMERICA...
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By Robert L. Huffstutter
When they came home from a war they did not start, but a war they won, they were ready to begin a project that lasted until they began passing away--making America the best and strongest nation on earth for freedom's sake.
They had seen the enemy, looked him in the eye and killed him!
It was a fight for our nation that would have great rewards for many decades. The rewards were reaped for their continued education through the GI bill that helped future military personnel, an education that would help them rebuild the purposes of America.
Their combat experience caused some of them severe mental problems, "shell shock" most folks said, but they didn't complain loudly, they simply adjusted to the best of their ability and helped each other, though few talked much about the bloody beaches they had seen. They found jobs, married their sweethearts left behind or found new ones; they began raising families, praying their children would not have to go to war. Yes, they prayed, many of them did, and they were proud of their memberships in neighborhood churches. They were glad to celebrate Thanksgivings, glad to lead prayer as the head of their family. They were the strenth of the American family, men of all faiths, creeds, religions. And yes, some were atheists, but they loved America nonetheless--unless they were Communists who were operatives. Some were discovered and tried, served their just dues. But most of these men were patriots, yes flag-waving men who became Shriners and members of the local Kiwanis Club or the Knights of Columbus. They were our fathers, our grandfathers, our uncles. There are enough of us left to remember them, but their numbers grow fewer as each day passes.
We remember them as the man and woman who fought for America's future either on the battlefield or the homefront. Never in the history of these United States since the Civil War had our nation suffered so many deaths and sorrow because of a battle with evil.
To prepare our relatives, the few who still remain, who fought in World War Two, there was the first world war, a battle America never really had to enter, nevetheless we did, thus some of our fathers had fathers who were veterans of a most miserable war.
Generations teach generations, and there was no shortage of volunteers when America became the enemy of two world powers in 1941. Within a period of a few short months, American men and women were sent into battle in large forces to battle for our survival and the survival of freedom. There were few debates at the time about our fight to defeat the evil empires that attacked our nation.
Through much sacrifice, the job was done. Today, almost ten years after this homeland suffered a frontal attack on our very soil at the cost of more lives lost on our military forces in what was then only a territory of the United States, we are on the eve of building a monument on the very site where we were attacked by two large planes that cost us more lives than were lost on 7 December 1941.
Is it a monument dedicated to the thousands of lives lost on that fateful day of 11 September 2001?
If it isn't, what is it and why is it being built on the very site where our homeland was attacked by a known force of evil ideologists who want to destroy our very way of life, our lifestyles, our combined variety of religious beliefs and our women and children, men and families of all races, creeds and colors.
I do know that if our men and women who fought World War Two were still in charge, such a building would never have been even considered for anything but a monument with a United States flag waving from its sphere.
No, it would never have been considered as a site for a parking lot, a Catholic Church, a Protestant Church, a Jewish Temple or an Islamic Mosque.
Might I mention that it would not have been considered as the right spot for a Bhuddist temple either, no, not in a a New York minute.
It is high time to find another location for this...memorial to whomever it is dedicated to or whatever it is about. The people have spoken and made it clear that they would prefer it be moved.
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