WHAT THE WWII GENERATION DID FOR US,
AND
HOW WE LET THEM DOWN
"But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass. 1:24. For he beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what manner of man he was. But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed." (James 1:22-25)
A little more than half a century ago, millions of men and thousands of women prepared for the most fearful physical battle against the most thoroughly evil empire Satan had ever established up to that time.
We must note that today, the United States of America, as leader of the world in murder of unborn children, now holds the distinction of being the most evil empire Satan has ever created on Earth, but half a century ago Nazi Germany held that distinction.
My father and your fathers and grandfathers gathered together to go ashore facing the most threatening military defenses ever created in the history of mankind, opposing men who up until that time were the most successful military leaders.
Those who went ashore in the first waves on the first day did not know exactly what they were to face - no one could tell them for no one had ever engaged in this massive a military assault. But these men knew it would be horrible, and it was; but they engaged in battle anyway because it had to be done, because they could not let their fellow soldiers suffer because of their own fear. Those who came after them, whether it be hours or days later, knew the horror they faced from information given them by the surviving wounded who had been returned to England.
These men knew the work that had to be done, and though virtually every one of them never wanted to kill another person, and though none of them wanted to be killed or wounded, they knew they HAD to kill the enemy so-as-to preserve their own lives and those of their fellow soldiers; so-as-to STOP the great evil Satan had unleashed on the Earth.
It is impossible to explain what these men experienced. When you are living in a world that has gone past horror, past terror, past fear, you are in a world which can not be explained because you are experiencing horror, terror, and fear at levels which normally only exist in Hell.
Men like the kind and gentle retired Roman Catholic Archbishop of New Orleans, Philip Hannan, rich men like Joe and Jack Kennedy, ordinary boys who had not decided what they wanted to do in life, like my uncle Gerry Bernard, a sailor who died in the Pacific theater, the man down the street who worked in a bakery after the war, men like my father, Elias Alison Mc Colloster, who became a newspaper reporter after the war, your father, your grandfather - these men fought the most horrible and ruthless physical manifestation of evil that has ever existed outside of Hell and outside of the Clinton government.
If these men had not prevailed, we would not be speaking German today for we would not exist!
That is what we owe these men, our very existence.
When the rest of the world says nasty things about America, we should look the rest of the world in the eye and say, "You ungrateful, snotty little wretches. If my father's America was not the ultimate in magnanimity, you either would not exist, or, if you did exist, you would be nothing more than a starving slave under the heel of the Nazi, the Fascist, and the Nipponese."
We owe these men everything.
It is to our shame that we have lost the war they won, for in our own midst we nurture the evil of Clintonesque, Supreme Court, and Congressionally dictated tortured murder of unborn children.
It is time this generation gets off of its rump and engages in the same level of sacrifice as our fathers and grandfathers. It is time we honor the Allied World War II veterans with the greatest of love and respect we can give, and that we honor them by engaging in the war of our own times, the war against abortion.
Remember this: When our fathers had won the war, they immediately followed the winning with the rebuilding of their former enemies. So too does God rebuild those who turn away from their sins of abortion; but WE are the soldiers God has chosen to fight the abortion war, and most people who are against abortion have not engaged in any activity which would cause them even the slightest sacrifice.
We will not win our war until we appreciate our fathers' war.
+ Paul, S.S.B.