We live in an awesome yet confusing time in American history.  While we honor the fallen soldiers of past wars we read or watch  the news accounts of heroes who are now dying on foreign soil.

AND I WONDER…

We see the pictures of the mangled armored vehicles, the downed helicopters and the bombed cars.

AND I WONDER ….

We watch and listen as those who hate America (here and abroad) dance in the streets, hurl their vicious and venomous vitriolic speech at our soldiers and accuse the liberators of every conceivable crime.

AND I WONDER ….

Our hearts ache for the wives, husbands, parents, children and extended family members and friends who are left with tearful memories of what once was.  We see them on the evening news as they try to reason and make sense out of the death of their loved one.

AND I WONDER ….

We read or hear the Hate America speeches spewed by some of our political leaders .

AND I WONDER ….

We watch in stunned disbelief as Hollywood personalities, sexually deviant political hacks and misguided, secularist, media personalities bash our President and our military leaders.

AND I WONDER ….

“WHAT DO I WONDER,”  you may be thinking?

I WONDER ….. “Is this the fruit from the tree of freedom which is being watered by the very blood of brave men and women while I speak to you this very moment.  Is this what these brave men and women died for?

I WONDER …. “Is our nation’s soul defined by the Hate America crowd in Germany, France, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, China, North Korea – New York, Los Angeles, Hollywood, or the city where you live?

AND I HAVE DECIDED …. 

Our brave soldiers did not die, and are not dying for the propagation of a sexually deviant lifestyle ….  Their deaths are not honored by such filth.

Our brave soldiers did not die, and are not dying for the promotion of print or movie media which debases this great country …. Their deaths are not honored by such lies.

Our brave soldiers did not die, and are not dying for the benefit of  corrupt politicians and judges …. Their deaths are not honored by such contradiction.

Our brave soldiers did not die, and are not dying for the anti-Christian secularist who deny all of the historical documents which include God, Jesus and the Bible in the founding of America ….  Their deaths are not honored by such revisionism.

Our brave soldiers did not die, and are not dying for the ACLU, and every other America hating organization …. Their deaths are not honored by such division.

War is a horrible and deadly reminder that man, by nature, is a cruel and selfish entity.  When God is absent from culture, life becomes nothing more than existence.   And that existence is, more often than not, encumbered with heartaches and sorrows created  by tyrannically wicked and despotic leaders.

The irony of it all is that freedom benefits the crook as well as the honest man; the shyster as well as the upstanding; the rich as well as the poor; the strong as well as the weak; the sinner as well as the righteous.

Freedom allows a person to be whatever they choose to be.  It does not decide the worth or value of that decision but it gives opportunity.  Freedom (within the boundaries of civil law) allows maximum expression of ideas, words, and acts.

And our soldiers die to assure that freedom to this country and other countries of the world.  What the people do WITH that freedom is beyond the scope of the conflict.

Good men can choose to be better – Bad men can choose to be worse.  The soldier has no control over those choices – He fights for freedom.

Now, you will be interested to know that the Bible speaks directly to this point. 

We learn in Scripture that Jesus did the very thing that soldiers are doing.  He died for people who were good people but He also died for people who were not worthy of His death.

Listen to these Scriptures:

Rom 5:7  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

Rom 5:8  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Isn’t that a remarkable and wonderful encouragement?

I contend that there are many good people who will honor and reverence the memories of the brave soldiers who have died in service to this country.

In fact, multiplied millions will line America’s small town streets and celebrate with community parades and political picnics.

Other millions will stand in somber silence in the national cemeteries and community graveyards as military personnel honor their brave compatriots in restrained emotional and dignified military tradition.

Sadly, there are also millions who will disgrace and dishonor the deaths of our fallen heroes by ignoring or disallowing this national day of respect.  They are more concerned for their political correctness or sexual deviancy than honor.  In fact, many honor our enemies rather than our brave heroes.

I ASK MYSELF  - “What can I do to honor our country’s war dead?”

Here’s what I’ve decided:

            I will continue to be an upright and honorable citizen.

            I will continue to respect the laws of this country and live an honest life.

            I will continue to be morally pure and stand against sexual deviancy.

            I will continue to respect my President and my country.

By these actions, and others, I will honor and show respect to the fallen heroes of this wonderful country we call America.  May God bless America and may God bless the national memory of our fallen heroes.