VETERANS DAY, 26!

Since America chose to exit Britain and become a Country, more than One Million of our Citizens have died.  Killed in action, or died while trying to endure the ailments visited upon them from the wars they fought.  

Most died while fighting those who would deny their family and friends and neighbors the Freedom God gifted us.  And we as a Nation wouldn't stand for it.  Such as the more than 605,000 who died freeing the slaves.  

From the Revolutionary War, through the World Wars, through those wars we didn't even choose to name, our kids and their leaders have written a blank check for an amount up to and including their lives, and then had it cashed by those who came after.

You and me, we came after.  Those of us who are choosing to celebrate this day.

And it seems that there's no end to the number of people willing to attack us and try and take from us our Land and our Freedom.  Millions of them.  Billions of them.

As one who has worn the uniform of the United States, and been converted into a Proud Patriot as a result, I ask you to take a moment this day and say a prayer for all those souls who have gone before us.  Please ask God to continue to lay his healing Hands upon them and give them peace. 

Peace to those who are watching down from Heaven as we try and navigate how to now prevent us from becoming the communist, socialist, or Marxist enclave our enemies so crave.  In fact, ask God to grant some of his grace to those same countries so they may enjoy the Freedoms we hold dear.   

In the meantime, protect us from those who are working so hard to take from us our Freedom.  Those who were not graced by God with the wonderful land we now possess.

It is not easy.  It has never been easy.  It will never be easy.  It will take the dedicated efforts of all our citizens to keep our enemies at bay.  There have always been more poor and disadvanteged than those who've worked to improve their lives.  Even more who will choose to try and wrest the glories we've worked for from our grasp.    

This has happened before.  It just might happen again.  We shall try and prevent that.  But so long as we are protected by the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution, and hold them high as our Guidepost through the darkness, we shall prevail.  We have always prevailed.  And you can count on me to always try and work toward accomplishing that goal.

Go forth with your head held high.  A smile on your face.  And a song in your heart.  Knowing I'm right behind you.  Protecting your back.  So long as God permits.