Why Celebrate Memorial Day?
by Daniel New

There is nothing sacred about putting on a uniform. There is nothing sacred about obeying orders. It’s a contractual duty. While our people in uniform get killed in the course of obeying orders, it is rarely a noble thing. There are exceptions, of course, such as the time in Vietnam when Lt. Lee Roy Herrin threw himself on a grenade (which was very possibly thrown into the tent full of officers by an American soldier, himself in uniform!). Lee Roy’s name is on The Wall in D.C. He died that others might live. And I think of him often.

There is the occasional sacrifice of that magnitude, but I find myself wondering about a nation that no longer honors God, yet continues to pursue and even honor War. Since 1963 our nation has made it official government policy that there is no room for God in any government institution. Those who try to express their faith within the confines of government institutions are severely censored, discriminated against, demoted, and even hounded out of their jobs. Chaplains are not allowed to pray in the name of Jesus. (But Muslim chaplains are allowed to pray to Allah! This is an insane situation, and one has to ask the question: “Who controls this nation, and who controls our military?”

The usurpation of powers by the government has gone on for over a century. I am not speaking of any specific president, but of the system itself, when I say that we live today under a regime that is anti-Christian, anti-God. It is a system that has been captured by the Enemy/Enemies of God. This usurped government serves a plethora of gods, chief among them being Mars – the Roman god of War. Tragically, Christian churches all across this land regularly parrot that same false religion.

If we were a Christian nation, we would oppose all wars of aggression. We would oppose interfering in the affairs of other nations. We would bring home all military personnel not engaged in a defensive war that has been declared by Congress, and we would dissolve our standing army, as required by the Constitution. If those actions are unthinkable to you, I propose that you are not a Christian first, and you certainly don’t agree with the Constitution you took an oath to support and defend. I don’t care if you go to church seven days a week, no Christian has a Biblical, or Constitutional leg to stand on by supporting a standing army which invades nations which have not attacked us and occupies them in order to extract their natural resources, or worse, to bring about the New World Order.

America has lost its way. That is because America has abandoned its Faith in God.
Today we cannot encourage any Christian to join the military in any capacity except as a missionary. Nor can we encourage them to work for the government in any institution or agency, except as a missionary. Of course, the Christian who does not think he is a missionary, no matter where he works, is a person who is still short on the concept of what happened to him, and to where his duty lies.

When a man dies for something, it can be a noble thing. When he dies for nothing, that is tragic, and probably involves perfidy, up to and including treason. It is perfidious to send Americans to provoke Islam, to fan them into a world-wide jihad, but that is precisely what the last four American presidents have done. Did they do it knowingly, or are they just following orders themselves? We may never know, but the net result has been disastrous.

These soldiers currently occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, and waging illegal war against Libya, are not “defending freedom around the world,”, they are destroying what America stood for, for so many years. The American deaths are sad, and needless. The impact upon the nations we are occupying is worse than just the cost in lives and property – it guarantees that our posterity will wind up fighting their posterity for another century, or more. The deaths of soldiers who have died that the world might become satellites or puppet nations of the American empire are not something we need to memorialize. They didn’t understand it that way, but that’s what they did. We may grieve them, but we need not memorialize them.
This Memorial Day, I mourn the passing of a “free nation under God”. And while I understand why they do it, I cannot respect those military personnel who are aiding and abetting the enemies of freedom by serving an anti-Christian, anti-Freedom revolutionary government, all in the name of the glory of War and Conquest.

Freedom: RIP
© 2011 Daniel D. New