**A letter to the editor of a Lubbock, Texas, newspaper from Michael Ivanchak, Jr., of Lubbock, Texas.
“At 92 and a World War II Army sergeant major, I did not agree entirely with all that was said on Memorial Day in honor of our soldiers.
Speaking for the dead, We did not fight and die for what America has become today; to have God, who has blessed our country richly and prayers which He answered at Valley Forge and on other battlefields since, prohibited from being mentioned in our schools and public institutions.
We did not die to see abortion and gay marriages legalized and teenage pregnancies, drug addiction, school shootings, divorce, crime, child and spousal abuse ravish our once God loving nation. Nor see freedom of speech used as an excuse to pollute our TV and computer networks, movies, our minds, hearts and national character with profanity, adultery, scams, pornography, idolatry, sadism and greed, and have perverted rock stars become role models for our children.
We did not die to see evolution replace God as the creator of the universe and the Christian foundations of our nation and Constitution ridiculed.
We did not die to have a draft dodger and then eight years later someone become president and commander-in-chief who turned his back on our dying and wounded soldiers in Landstuhl while denouncing America, whom they defended, to cheering Europeans and Muslims worldwide.
On Memorial Day, we should have also grieved for what we have become and prayed for real change.
Recalling Reagan’s unforgettable words, We died for decency, freedom, equality, justice and God to bless us.”
SHARING
