May 23, 2023
With another Memorial Day upon us, we may consider the question: Is America still worth fighting for? On Nov. 21, 1864, President Lincoln wrote to a Mrs. Bixby of Massachusetts, who had lost five sons in the Civil War. He penned, "I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." Advertisement - story continues below But, alas, today's military - like so many institutions in our country - is going "woke." That is to say that they are being infected with a cultural Marxism that has re-written our history, making America out to be irredeemably evil. One regular contributor to NPR said several months ago: "[T]he United States does not yet have the stomach to look over its shoulder and stare directly at the evil on which this great country stands. That is why slavery is