Today, Americans should consider, if only for a moment, the sacrifices that have been made in order that we might live. In order that we might live in freedom, with opportunity, hope, ideals, and liberty, many men and women from our military and intelligence services have given their lives.
For the intellectually dishonest, it is the teacher/ writer/ poet that have provided us the freedom to live out our wildest aspirations. Several would quote Kennedy and his statement on poetry and war. They honestly do not see, and in some ways are so much more dangerous than any enemy we face. They cannot see evil, refuse to acknowledge evil exists outside of the limits of the United States, and when they stretch their imaginations to admit that evil does indeed exist, outside of US actions, it is usually because of US actions that their brand of evil exists. They are hopeless, yet they have control of academia and shape the minds of the young far more than any brainwashing of Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. They are hopeless, and dangerous.
Evil knows that it exists, although it often colors itself as liberator, and it knows what academia fails to understand - we are at a disadvantage because we refuse to acknowledge its existence. Western Civilization has progressed and become progressive, with little room for such trinkets of old, as evil, good, and bad. That may be our fatal flaw. Hopeless and dangerous.
Instead, evil will work with academia, shape, mold, and concede when needed, to mollify the questioners, and lead them further astray - to create a fantasy world where academics believe that negotiation, or talking actually accomplished its intended goal. They will revise their history, establish academic educational standards for teaching, and control what the young hear - for they know that the war is won with the young, and they must win, or face oblivion. Hopeless and dangerous.
Our freedom is not due to academia, for wisdom is not achieved from sitting at desks, but begins with common sense, a virtue akin to leprosy for academics. Yet today men and women join our military and intelligence services, to serve and protect the American people. They do not join with malice nor indifference, for they reflect you and me in what they have done and wish to do, and most certainly you would question any designation of your intentions as hateful. With each life lost and each battle won, the teacher, and poet is more free to express their acarpous and bombastic arguments opposing any war, than they were before American men, and women joined our military, and intelligence services.
Today we remember and honor the loss, and while many will call it a pyrrhic victory, it is far from that definition of defeat – so many men and women understood that some events are ineluctable, and must be faced, or their families and friends they left behind would face the same evil, on a different day. These men and women, many who would never consider themselves heroes, have fought and many have died serving the highest ideals of freedom, allowing us the opportunity to live out our lives without undo fear and anguish of knocks in the dark, rockets destroying neighborhoods, or our school buses blown up with children aboard.
Pedantic politicians do not make long lasting peace, nor do unilateral treaties with enemies that understand only total and complete victory or death. Our men and women have faced these evils in every battle and war in our nation’s history and they continue to serve, despite the dangerous and feckless ranting of the extreme left - and they will serve, all people who desire freedom, for they protect the ideal of freedom and liberty when they stand and fall for the United States.
We do not find the opportunity anywhere else on earth, and it is not that we took it, for we gave much to possess much, and we do not help mankind by giving, when instead we can help others develop the same opportunities.
Deo volente we will never forget the sacrifices that have afforded us all that we have, and we will not abdicate our responsibility in favor of temporary safety and security.
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