Defender of Civilization

As another Memorial Day approaches, where many will commemorate the sacrifice that each of us should appreciate every day, America continues her battles of the last century where the United States was literally the shield against benighted forces who would cast the world into darkness. In the First World War, the conduct of Germany was so brutal that they were derisively called "Huns". Troops of Kaiser Wilhelm II devastated tiny Belgium, massacring thousands of civilians before going on to rape the area of France they managed to occupy. They introduced weapons of mass destruction to the world, launching the first military attack with poison gas. Ultimately, only the might of the United States was able to thwart brutal German aggression in World War I. The Second World War only enhanced America as the protector of freedom for the globe. What the United States defeated with enormous cost not only in treasure but more importantly shed blood, was evil on the march. The Japanese who attacked Pearl Harbor had released a new brand of brutality on Asia as Japan started a war of aggression by promulgating their phony Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere- a conquest that included the notorious Rape of Nanking and the infamous Unit 731 and its fatal experiments on thousands of prisoners. Need I mention the unparalleled Nazi viciousness against Europe that gave us the world's worst genocide. Only America- the arsenal of democracy, the storehouse of freedom, and the spreader of liberty could confront and defeat the forces of fascism and slavery. The Red menace in Korea that only America could fend off still threatens the free South Korea even today. The same Communist threat cost American lives in Southeast Asia and where the US left, reeducation camps and crimes against humanity were sure to follow. Dangerous regimes in Grenada and Panama were pacified at a cost in US blood before we finally confronted the madness of Saddam Hussein. Americans have fallen in the war on terror which we were forced to wage as jihad hit our shores and we still find ourselves locked in this life and death struggle even if the Obama administration refuses to acknowledge this and plays a semantic game trying to call the battle something else. The United States of America has willingly paid the high price for liberty and not just our own but wherever it was threatened across the world. Sadly, more are bound to join the ranks of the honored dead as the struggle for freedom is never over.