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Why I Celebrate Memorial Day 

by Steve A. Politte

        I look back in time so many years ago when I was so very young.  Our country was involved in a war, but it was called a “conflict.”  Still yet, to those who fought it was a war, and to those who fought it was for the cause so that our great nation could remain free, and our flags waving in the breezes.  Yes, it was hard to see so many soldiers killed in Vietnam and also badly injured, just as it was for those in other wars, but we knew that it was the price that had to be paid in order for us to remain a free nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.  Oh the government might have had different reasons for us being there, both men and women, but we knew in our hearts what the real reason was.

        Just like we knew in our hearts why all those who paid the ultimate price in all the wars before us, our fathers, grand fathers, and on down the line, to that time when our country’s young men first fought for the right to exist as a free country in this world.  And we call it America, the United States of America.  And this country was founded on the moral values and truths that we embraced from our God, and as we strived to live the gospel message of our Lord Jesus Christ.  We were founded as a Christian nation, and nothing less, and we are still that Christian nation still yet today.  Though the leaders of our country now seem to have lost sight of what we are about, and have and continues to pursue in a different direction, far away from what our founding fathers fought and died for this country to be. We will always be a Christian nation, yet embrace all faith expressions.

        How very much ashamed am I and as so many millions of others, of the course or direction that our leadership is taking us now.  As if all of those who paid the ultimate price, all of those who incurred disabling injuries, were for naught.  And even yet today, men and women are defending our country for the very same reasons that we did in the past.  And yet, the reasons that our leaders today embrace are not of love for God nor of country, at least not this country.

        We fought for the rights of all, the right for life, for liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  Not the happiness of our leaders, but for those who still see our once great country as united under the banner of those Christian morals and values of days long past.  God and country can never be separated, for who we are as a country is deeply rooted in Him.  It is not rooted in anything else, not the whims of government leadership that defies God, that seeks to change our Constitution, or even yet get rid of it.  No one government, no one person has such authority to do that, and the real America citizens of this country will not let that happen.

        Now we are led by government leaders who are self seeking, corrupt, paid off by special interest groups, and seem to lack any moral foundation at all.  As I watch the laws being passed day after day that seek to make this country a socialist country, I may feel like throwing up, but certainly not giving up, as do so many millions of faithful American citizens all across this great land.  A weak and despicable government leadership that has completely abandoned the American way of life, our flag, and the rights of every American citizen.  And I ask myself many times, “How can one government be so corrupt and immoral, that it even fears those who are of the weakest link in our society?”  What a complete turn around in the opposite direction of what this country stood for and is suppose to stand for today.  What a mess!

        What was once a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, has seem to just evaporate in thin air.  And in it’s place is a government of our leaders, by our leaders, and for our leaders and their special interest groups.  A government leadership that says that the right to exist as a human being is up for debate.  Up for debate?  There is no debate to human life.  It is a gift given by God, not by man, and no one man or a group of folks can change that because of their own person opinions or beliefs.  You cannot override the laws of nature and God, and not expect serious consequences as a result thereof.

         This leadership in our government cannot redefine marriage as to suit their notions or that of a homosexual community, despite the amount of money and pressure that is being applied to them.  God defined marriage when He created the first man and woman as a union that was of a man and woman, a spiritual union with the privilege of being co-creators with God of human life.  No one has a right to change what God has created to be.  Even though state judges who are also morally deficient or state legislators who are morally deficient, and who may fear the outcry of a homosexual community, you cannot undo what God has done, without facing His justifiable wrath upon you, no matter how large or how much money you have.  These are not rights that our soldiers have fought and died for.  They are the whims of morally decayed government leaders or judges at the national and state level.

        We have a leadership that wants to control the people of this country;  that calls it’s citizens who disagrees with it ideology extremists and terrorists.  How much more self serving could that be?  A government who wants to dictate, not seek the peoples voice;  a government that wants of be in control of all aspects of the lives of it’s citizens;  who wants to suppress them and make them completely dependent on government leadership for health care, energy, climate, and immoral convictions that are not rooted in the laws of God.

        Let us be aware that our celebration of this Memorial Day is only for those who have fought and died for the freedoms and the rights that once made this country the greatest country on earth.  For that is what our leaders should be aspiring too. 

Let us pray that this be the course that we stay, that political correctness, politics, government leaders agenda and that of special interest groups be null and void; that we continue to be one nation, under God, indivisible, with justice for all;  that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is for those citizens of this country, and this country only!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

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