AMERICA: LOOK TO TOUR ROOTS!

America! Did God love you too much,
To hold ypur place among nations so late?
He hoped you would guard and spread freedom's touch,
Keeping faith with the founders who launched the state!
Where is the shining city on the hill
That John Winthrop preached with true Yankee grit?
Are there a few today who dream that still,
Or have selfishness and greed obscured it?
Our forefathers would be shocked to see us now:
Four thousand unborns killed every day!
No prayers to God does school law allow!
For many states same-sex marriage okay!
America! Your birth gave the world hope;
Now, they follow you in darkness grope!

Peter Jenkins called those Americans who fought WW2 "the greatest generation". I read the book, but I didn't accept the accolade. Now, I do. I'm one of them, spending 3 years in the South Pacific. When I see the Democrat party in power in Washington, write a monstrous power-grab bill behind closed doors; bribe with taxpayer money for votes within their own party; include every cheap, dishonest, dirty trick imaginable to enact a law that includes tax money to pay for more abortions, taxes forcing people to buy insurance, indebting our descendants beyond ability to repay; and these are men and women elected, sworn to uphold the constitution and defend America; then I agree with Peter Jenkins. Our war dead should come from their forgotten graves and accuse every voter or non-voter of treason and theft of their lost lives!

Dr. Gordon Hugenberger, senior pastor of Park Street Church in Boston, reminded us in a sermon on Zechariah 8:1-8 recently about the leader of the Massachusetts Bay colonists, John Winthrop, setting their goal of making America a "shining city on a hill". This was in 1630, in a sermon on the open deck of the Arabella as they sailed into what is now Boston Harbor. It was just that, even though dark seasons like the Civil War, dampened the luster. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 on Sunday, 12/7/41, on Monday morning at 8 a.m. the recruiting offices were jammed. My 35-year-old uncle R. T. Easley, with a wife and 3 children, enlisted in the army and fought for our freedom. Until 1950, America was a shining city on a hill. But something has changed us since then. We are divided into "blue" states and "red" states. Instead of being proud of our Christian heritage, our media and goverment have turned against Christianity. We have a president who announced to an open-mouthed world, "America has never been a Christian nation." The Christmas season is called the Holiday season. Our courts have legalized a slogan called "Pro-Choice" which if honestly interpreted means it is legal for a pregnant woman to have her baby killed by our medical establisment, and the bill being railroaded through Congress will make it illegal for a doctor to refuse to do the abortion. Our nation has become ashamed of its Puritan roots in just 234 years. Where are our Patrick Henrys, Thomas Jeffersons, John Adams, James Madisons, and Benjamin Franklins? Yes, I am one of the greatest generation, and I hate what we are becoming.

It has become politically incorrect to call a war a "war". Our president refuses to call Islamic jihads against America "jihads against America"; they are "isolated criminal acts". The terrorist killing of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood has not been labeled "terrorist" yet by the president. Islam clearly states in its Qur'an that its goal is to kill Christians and Jews and conquer the world; yet we have 7 million Islamic worshipers in America that preach openly about destroying America. Why is the fake religion of Islam allowed the privileges that a true religion like Christianity is not allowed? And why do our newspapers support this? We must wake up; write letters, emails, and telegrams to Washington before it is forever too late.