Since 1861, more than 1,350,000 American soldiers have given their lives in defense of our country and what it stands for. A bit less than half of those died in our own American Civil War and settled the fundamental mistake that was slavery. I hope most see that terrible loss as America’s payment in blood as reparations enough.

I don’t doubt how few of us, particularly those under 40, appreciate the sacrifices made so that those who want to blindly bad mouth our country can do so without breaking a sweat or suffering the deprivations that millions of us undertook to build and preserve our nation as founded and constituted.

From Freedom to the Silent Honor of National Cemeteries:-

There are over 150 national cemeteries; there is likely one near you. It should be the duty of every American to visit one and understand the direct line that runs from freedom to a simple grave in a national cemetery. The uneducated will view the row upon rows of plain and unadorned grave markers laid out with military precision in different ways. Some will be emotionally moved by the loss of life and wonder why we have wars and all that waste of humanity. Others will understand that our freedoms were never free and the world is not even a bit benevolent. Still, others will feel incredible empathy and a sense of awe at the willingness of so many to serve a purpose greater than oneself.

Nothing I hear, read, or observe makes me angrier than those who disrespect our heroes, who served and gave their all, or whose lives were turned upside down, coming home with physical and psychological trauma in too many cases. There are far too many condescending pricks that know little and run their mouths as if they understand more than those lying in those hallowed graves. There is a special place in hell for those who lead good but otherwise uneducated people off the path of righteousness and truth and into a vacuous life of dishonor and moral and intellectual dishonesty. We always had them, but they never enjoyed the megaphone quite as much until after Vietnam. Vietnam changed us profoundly and negatively. We’ve never seemed to have found our way back or trusted our government as we did before. We’re all the poorer for it. The new “spontaneous” anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian groups are the latest iteration of Club Lemming. The supposed issues change, but the violent rhetoric, lack of intellectual rigor, and, most of all, the childish and destructive actions they scream to the rafters in the name of “peace” never ameliorate.  No different than those before them, only with a different chant—“Make love, not war.”

The very nature of a populace that does not trust its government has spawned a productive breeding ground for imposter leaders. We’ve had too many of those in the years since we left Vietnam. The nature of the world has not changed, but we have. Our experiences with our recent political leaders have generally magnified our mistrust and apprehension. Instead of the inspired leadership we deserve, we get too many willing to pander to our base desires and push off the critical ideas and decisions that someone must make but never seems to get around to. I view those who hate our history, our staid middle class that favors traditional families, and most of all, our traditions that rely on God and reverence for our flag as most disgusting of all. The young reflexive globalists among us hate us for America’s uniqueness and love of the individual over that of the State.

Lost Souls of a Nation – The Legacy of Vietnam Veterans:-

The result is a country and a people adrift. When Vietnam veterans returned, not to parades and accolades but to chants of “baby killers” and “warmongers,” we all lost a bit of our souls. This ripped the guts out of our country in a way that we have not yet recovered from. It also allowed an entirely new kind of anti-Americanism to flourish and grow that now seems to have us by the throat. We don’t seem to know how to react anymore to our home-grown terrorists within. Columbia University removed three deans for persistent antisemitic comments but, tellingly, did not fire them! Why? Because the removal was just a ruse to cover up the systematic corruption that goes all the way to the top and beyond. We’re all being played by a powerful, deeply rooted conspiracy determined to overthrow our country and metaphorically walk over the graves of our heroes. Many know and understand but are fearful of MSM’s power to damage anyone they turn their destructive gaze on.

Social Justice, Intersectionality, Equity, and Diversity ad nauseam are all tools that are customized to the individual weakness of each of us to defeat our common sense and hard-coded survival instincts. Millions are inadvertently members of a national suicide cult that is not transparent and uses misdirection and the latent tendencies of our internal evil actors to focus the rest of us on issues that are either trivial or miss the main point…to govern our Republic in the best interests of our citizens.

It has gotten so bad that we can’t even fill our historically much smaller Army, Navy, and Air Force billets. Why? The Progressives have the bullhorn, and two of their many tactics is to shame our youth into not serving while undermining our warrior ethos by allowing DEI to infect our warfighters.

Undoubtedly, millions of dead warriors are turning over in their graves, viewing successive Presidents of this once great land surrendering before the bugle has even sounded. We must not let that last call be “Taps.”

God Bless America.

Allan J. Feifer—Patriot

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