Give This Some Thought

Received this from an internet friend that I have never met.
Not sure who wrote it, but it makes me think of my Dad,
uncles and father-in-law who HAD to leave their families to
fight WWII..

Got this from a gentleman in his 80’s (and a DEMOCRAT!)
who actually lived thru those (and these) times. Agree or not,
makes you stop and think. (Made me, anyway…)

Everyone has a different opinion on the war and our current
President. But this article probably makes sense to those
who remember. Read it and give it some thought. What a
difference 60 years makes..!!!

‘You Ain’t Gonna Like Losing.’ Author unknown

President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism.
But the mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq .

Bush’s mistake came in his belief that this country is the
same one his father fought for in WWII. It is not.

Back then, they had just come out of a vicious depression.
The country was steeled by the hardship of that depression,
but they still believed fervently in this country. They knew
that the people had elected their leaders, so it was the
people’s duty to back those leaders.

Therefore, when the war broke out the people came together,
rallied behind, and stuck with their leaders, whether they had
voted for them or not or whether the war was going badly or
not. And war was just as distasteful and the anguish just as
great then as it is today. Often there were more casualties in
one day in WWII than we have had in the entire Iraq war. But
that did not matter The people stuck with the President because
it was their patriotic duty Americans put aside their differences
in WWII and worked together to win that war.

Everyone from every strata of society, from young to old
pitched in. Small children pulled little wagons around to gather
scrap metal for the war effort. Grade school students saved
their pennies to buy stamps for war bonds to help the effort.

Men who were too old or medically 4F lied about their age or
condition trying their best to join the military. Women doubled
their work to keep things going at home. Harsh rationing of
everything from gasoline to soap, to butter was imposed, yet
there was very little complaining.

You never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the
President. Interestingly enough in those days there were no
fat cat actors and entertainers who ran off to visit and fawn
over dictators of hostile countries and complain to them
about our President. Instead, they made upbeat films and
entertained our troops to help the troops’ morale. And a
bunch even enlisted.

And imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started the
day off with a Pledge of Allegiance, and with prayers for our
country and our troops!

Back then, no newspaper would have dared point out
certain weak spots in our cities where bombs could be set
off to cause the maximum damage. No newspaper would
have dared complain about what we were doing to catch spies.

A newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it
had complained that German or Japanese soldiers were
being ‘tortured’ by being forced to wear women’s underwear,
or subjected to interrogation by a woman, or being scared by
a dog or did not have air conditioning.

There were a lot of things different back then. We were not
subjected to a constant bombardment of pornography,
perversion and promiscuity in movies or on radio. We did not
have legions of crack heads, dope pushers and armed gangs
roaming our streets.

No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling
of terrorism. He made the mistake of believing that we still
had the courage and fortitude of our fathers. He believed
that this was still the country that our fathers fought so
dearly to preserve.

It is not the same country. It is now a cross between Sodom
and Gomorrah and the land of Oz. We did unite for a short
while after 9/11, but our attitude changed when we found
out that defending our country would require some sacrifices.

We are in great danger. The terrorists are fanatic Muslims.
They believe that it is okay, even their duty to kill anyone
who will not convert to Islam. It has been estimated that
about one third or over three hundred million Muslims are
sympathetic to the terrorists cause … Hitler and Tojo
combined did not have nearly that many potential recruits.

So…we either win it – or lose it – and you ain’t gonna like losing.
Today, for many folks, America is not at war. The military is at war.
America is at the mall.

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