Veterans Day 2011

11-11-2011

Today is a day of remembrance. A day to give thanks to that legion of men and women who chose to place themselves between the wars desolation and their own native land.

These were individuals who gambled their lives to insure that this nation of ours would survive along with its laws, customs and beliefs intact; unfettered by tyranny from outside forces. Many gave their lives for that noble cause and to them we pay a special homage on this day.

Formerly known as Armistice Day, which was the official end of World War I in 1918, the day was renamed Veterans Day by Congress in 1954 to honor all veterans.

So, it to all those who served in all the battlefields of every armed conflict since the "Great War" we give our most sincere thanks as we bow our heads in honor of the sacrifice they made that has preserved us as a nation.

Taps

Day is done,
Gone the sun,
From the lakes
From the hills,
From the sky,
All is well,
Safely, rest
God is near.

Fading light,
Dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky,
Gleaming bright,
From afar,
Drawing, near,
Falls the night.

Thanks and praise,
Four our days,
Neath the sun
Neath the stars
Neath the sky,
As we go,
This, we know,
God is near.

Darkness Descending

The fortunes of the world have waxed and waned with the passage of time and the rise and fall of tyrants and those with vision and true leadership abilities.

Currently, however, the United States, indeed the entire world, is currently on a path to a new dark age; a somber foreboding shadow that is spreading over the land blocking out the light of reason and sanity.

Many have already succumbed to this darkness and have been the instigators, if not indeed the creators, of a new order of chaos and confusion that is even now permeating the very fabric of our lives. As a result there is abroad in the land a feeling of fear and insecurity wrought by an authority that has openly demonstrated an alarming degree of incompetence, whether by design or actual fact.

Thus there is in the land a mood that is very unsettled. There as those who cling to the ideals fostered by those who originally designed a form of government then unknown on the planet. That form of government is now being severely tested and the outcome will determine if it indeed survives. The test is coming for a growing number of individuals who have been indoctrinated into believing that the socialist model is more beneficial to them than capitalism.

They have been subjected to an emotional argument that there is an inequity in the world, where "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer". They are told that it isn't right for the "rich" to cling to their "wealth" and not share it with others. Even now there is an organized movement in cities denouncing the behavior of Wall Street Banker fostered by the previously mentioned incompetent leadership who seeks to distract the nation from the fact that it has no solution to the problem other the same idea that has been constantly disproved by the passage of time and events of history.

The Occupy Wall Street is a sham and a diversion that Barack Obama hopes will be the means whereby the Democrats will maintain their control and hopefully make it a permanent one, thus sending this nation of ours on an inevitable path to socialism. However, that dream of a socialist utopia is foredoomed to become an untenable nightmare unsustainable under the conditions that constitute it's philosophy.

However, the damage that could result in the interim could indeed be disastrous for this nation and it's citizenry who are even now finding themselves assaulted on all side by increasing regulation and government control by executive fiat, in contravention of Congress and the very authority of the Constitution itself.

The darkness is coming. Only the voters can help clear it from the horizon by going to the polls on November 6, 2012 to send a clear message that Barack Obama and his ideological policies are nothing but the creation of disaster for this nation.