Veteran's Day After Ft. Hood Shooting

Veteran's Day 2009 was bittersweet.  It's hard to believe, just last week, 43 people's lives were changed forever in a battle that raged for 10 minutes in the heart of America's largest military base.  Our hearts ached as it did on 9/11 at the incredible act of hatred that caused mindless cold-blooded murder in our soil.  We have heard of the call of Bin Laden for Jihad and we've seen a glimpse of it-- but last week it hit home and it hit hard.  More and more are speaking of it as an act of terror and why not--it is exactly what the terrorists have been calling for. 

So Veteran's day though it was celebrated with a lot of cheers and smiles--I believe, there is also new found determination in the hearts of Americans to honor our freedom fighters by helping ensure they do not get massacred within their camp.   We have seen the scale tip too heavily when we ignore the obvious.  

It was a day for solemn thanksgiving to the legacy of freedom fought by all our soldiers in the past and present.  Freedom indeed isn't free and it can be lost if the enemy comes in because America is swallowing a sleeping pill called "political correctnes." 

Hope Americans remember that being politically involved is part of honoring God's blessings of letting us live in this shining "city on a hill."  So please call Congress  at 202 224-3121 to support Lieberman's call for an investigation.  It's a small thing to do for our brave men and women.

May God bless our soldiers and may God bless America.

Video of Moslem Saying The Message of Ft. Hood Shooter

The Lord gave me this passage on Sat. 10-3-09--it is very encouraging for He is with us and is something to remember in these times--

Jeremiah 50:34--Yet their Redeemer is strong;
       the LORD Almighty is his name.
       He will vigorously defend their cause 
       so that he may bring rest to their land...

We do have to pray for these who live in darkness

From the video:"...The message that should be taken from yesterday in Ft. Hood where 12 American soldiers were killed-this war that America begged for, they instigated and they started will not be simply fought in Moslem soil, Moslem lands-.....-this war will be fought on American soil....this is what the attacker wanted you to understand..."

  More to read and please pray over these things also:

Fight for your right while this is still your country:  "This is not my opinion; federal law enforcement confirms there exists a network of wealthy Islamic organizations within the U.S. dedicated to supporting terrorist groups and subverting our constitutional government."  Read this other WND article also.

On 9/11 they came in large planes--this time around they think they have found a better way.  Americans can't afford to be asleep on this issue.  We know not all  mean us harm but neither can we deny that those that do are very devout and very determined to use any weapons they can and even their very own family is not safe.  

The story of Rifqa Bary (link to report from former FBI on flawed report) a former Moslem who knows the truth and the repercussions that can come even from her own family needs to also be held by us in prayer. Due to political correctness her life now hangs in the balance.  Hear one of our podcast of an interview with a missionary who says honor killing is commonplace and yet we doubt Rifqa's fears. This is another warning--can we really afford to look the other way when signs are there?  Some people did in the case of Maj Hasan, and the price was paid with so many lives whose breath and dreams have been taken away because of the power of "one" sincerely wrong.  To their children, their mothers and fathers, their spouses, their best friends, their families and many in this nation-- those that died were very important people.   It is easy for some to overlook this but to many citizens of this great nation and those whose grief and pain we can only imagine--they wish someone had not looked the other way.

I pray for supernatural wisdom and discernment for our leaders and as in the days of the Foundation of this nation--I pray for boldness to seek the truth for all of us.  The problems were great too at that time and was insurmountable.  As I heard it said--a betting man would not have bet on US but because we serve Jehovah-God what is impossible with men is possible with Him.  He blessed America then--supernaturally--so don't forget to pray as well as act.  Thank you

Ft. Hood Shootings-The Victims

Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, Chicago--daughter of a Colombian immigrant who had wanted to join the military.  Francheska had told her father  'Papi, lo voy hacer' ('I will do it')."  She had re-enlisted and was on her way home early from Iraq due to her maternity leave.  It was her and her father's dream for her to serve in the military but Thursday that dream was shattered.

Velez was from Chicago and had attended Kelvyn Park High School and was in ROTC.  She had a wonderful fun personality and even worked for free as a clown at parties as she loved making people laugh specially her father.  They had a love together for the US military.  Her father asks "What I don't understand is how this demented man could do this. ... How could she die at the hands of her own people?  That's what I don't understand, and I will never understand."  This is a sad testimony of these politically correct times when the enemy is allowed to be amongst the brave soldiers and do them harm.  I pray we will learn something from this as statistics are showing the enemies tactics of working from within is an efficient tool for them especially when so many looks the other way.  It is time America wakes up--too many signs overlooked by those fearful of a backlash and that should not be--amongst the brave.  May we stand in the gap and say "never again."

List of others whose lived were ended on Thursday’s shooting at Fort Hood, Texas:

Maj. Libardo Caraveo, 52, Woodbridge, Va.

Spec. Frederick Greene, 29, Mountain City, Tenn.

Michael Cahill, 62, Cameron

Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, West Jordan, Utah

Pfc. Michael Pearson, 31, Bolingbrook, Ill.

Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 27, Frederick, Okla.

Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, Kiel, Wisc.

Pfc. Kham Xiong, 23, St. Paul, Minn.

Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Capt. Russell Seager, 51, Racine, Wisc.

Staff Sgt. Justin DeCrow, 32, Fort Gordon, Ga.

Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, San Diego, Calif.

Pvt. Najee Hull was shot two more times in the back as he tried to crawl away after being shot in the leg-he will live but lost his spleen.  Please pray as those injured are in dire straits.

Here is a link to an informative article on that 10 minutes of hell brought on by  Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan the enemy within.

Contact the 21 U.S. Rep that is key to Health Care Reform --oops they passed it

We want to pass this along and please act while you can--the time is now.

This is from Dick Armey and Freedom Works.
There are 21 representatives that are on the fence and are going to be brought into "the office" to be coerced into voting YES. So please keep calling and faxing ALL WEEKEND - we can't let up. You are making a difference so know that and press on!
Here are the names/numbers of the 21:

Their phone numbers all start with (202) 225-

Michael A. Arcuri Dem-NY - 3665
Allen Boyd, Jr. Dem-FL - 5235 or (850) 561-3979
Henry Cuellar Dem-TX 1640
Chet Edwards Dem-TX - 6105
Brad Ellsworth Dem-IN - 4636
Gabrielle Giffords Dem-AZ - 2542
Debbie Halvorson Dem-IL - 3635
Paul E. Kanjorski Dem-PA - 6511
Ann Kirkpatrick Dem-AZ - 2315
Ron Klein Dem-FL – 3026
Suzanne Kosmas Dem-FL - 2706—Resistnet.com reports that she is voting NO! Call and thank her!
James R. Langevin Dem-RI - 2735
Dan Maffei Dem-NY - 3701
Alan B. Mollohan Dem-WV - 4172
Glenn Nye Dem-VA - 4215
Tom Perriello Dem-VA - 4711
Ciro D. Rodriguez Dem-TX - 4511
Loretta Sanchez Dem-CA - 2965
Kurt Schrader Dem-OR – 5711
Robert C. Scott Dem-VA - 8351
Adam Smith Dem-WA – 8901

Put this on speed dial: Capital Switchboard (202) 224-3121

Update on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 09:27PM by City On A Hill

Democrats cheered and high-fived each other in the House chamber after lawmakers voted 220 to 215 to pass the landmark measure at 11:12 p.m. A lone GOPer from Louisiana Joseph Cao voted with them.

11-7-09 Honoring Our Brave Through Giving To Military Ministry

Hear an interview (go to top nav bar marked Radio Show) with Rachel Sherburne of Military Ministry by Campus Crusade.  In today's incredibly stressful times our military needs their services worse than ever.  Please share this interview and give to Military Ministry as they help deal with the mounting problems of today's military and their families.  The Ft. Hood shootings is just an added affront to the worries they already have.  This Thanksgiving and Christmas make a point of  helping our brave soldiers by helping provide for their emotional, spiritual needs--it is only fitting as they sacrifice to keep us living in the land of the free. 

 

call them at 1-800-444-6006

Visit their website:  Military Ministry

Send cards to Walter Reed Hospital for injured troops especially Christmas:

 

A Recovering American Troop c/o

Walter Reed Army Medical Center

6900 georgia Ave NW

Washington DC  20307

Link to Article on Help with Depression and song USA Today-about the soldier

Is America's leaders in delusion--when the enemy is set free and a soldier can no longer defend!

Excerpt from John Bernard --please go to his website --letthemfight.blogspot.com

We as a nation have allowed a sickness to creep in called a lie. This lie has been propagated in the school systems through the use of revised history. The lie is pervasive and essentially paints the United States and its citizenry as incredibly evil people who have impressed their evil on the innocent peoples of other nations. The result of decades of this kind of indoctrination is a self-loathing. It is not unusual for someone to seek redemption once they discover their sin and elements within the United States have spent their lives trying to ‘make up’ for the sins of the past. This week’s example of this was the release of Laith al-Khazali in Iraq. He is not a soldier, nor an elected representative of his people. He does not expound on the virtue of peace nor has he developed a vaccine for cancer. He is a murderer. He listened to and believed a lie and that lie grew into something insidious and he acted on it and because of that at least 5 American Soldiers did not return home to their families. In an 'act of reconciliation', the upper echelon of our own military released him back to his family. Match that to the plight of Sgt Larry Hutchins who kidnapped an Iraqi civilian (he suspected of aiding the insurgency in his area of operations) and subsequently shot him in the head. He is spending 15 years in prison for murder. The parole board recommended leniency and a reduction of sentence but earlier this week, Donald Winter – a man with ZERO military experience; a member of the Bush administration and now the Obama, denied him. Reconciliation you say?

John Bernard's Letter re: Revised Rules of Engagement

07/23/09 1056

I want to thank you for answering my letter to you in July concerning the new ROE in Afghanistan. I believe you either misunderstood the purpose of the letter or focused on the wrong item. While I believe the selection of General McChrystal was politically motivated, my actual concern is how this has affected our Warriors in Afghanistan. Let me reiterate:

Gen McChrystal established a new ROE (Rules of Engagement) upon his first visit to Afghanistan 2 months ago. This ROE requires all American Warriors to ‘break engagement with the enemy’ under the following conditions:

There are civilians in the area

You believe there may be civilians in the area

You cannot ascertain beyond a doubt that there may be civilians in the area.

The result of this new ROE is that our Marines and Soldiers are forced to ‘refuse the chase’ for fear of violating the new rules. This in turn is emboldening an enemy that has already showed a proclivity toward wanton murder of civilians and setting IED’s for patrolling Marines. While this ROE is suppose to spare civilian lives, it is

actually costing more civilians their lives and placing our Warriors at unreasonable risk.

In addition; NOW ZAD, Helmand Province is being patrolled by one, lone, Marine Corps Company with little to no support. That area of operation would normally require as much as a Regiment to cover correctly. The result is Marines patrolling, day and night, over ground with newly laid IED’s. Marines are being blown to bits without the ability to ‘bring the fight to the enemy’.

As a retired United States Marine, I and my fellow Marines understand the dangers inherent in the mission. Placing Warriors in a place where they cannot employ those skills they bring to the battlefield or even defend themselves is immoral at best.

My request is that you have a Staffer review this issue, update you and that you bring it up with your colleagues. I find it difficult to believe that members of Congress and the Senate would knowingly place the lives of American Warriors in a place where casualties will certainly increase (and they are increasing) with little or no change in the conditions they were sent there to deal with.

PLEASE REVIEW THIS SITUATION; YOU HAVE CONSTITUENTS TRYING TO PERFORM UNDER THESE IMMORAL RULES.

I have taken the time to include the original letter for you or a Staffer to more closely inspect. Please check the imbedded links to Intelligence sites. They are illuminating.

Sincerely;

John Bernard

1stSgt USMC Ret.

Congressman Mike Michaud

1724 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515-1902

Dear Sir;

I am writing to you today as an American citizen, 26 year veteran of the United States Marine Corps, committed Christian, Husband, Father of two and a businessman. I am also writing to you as the Father of a Marine who is, as all of his brothers in arms are, in harms way. That by itself is not a cause for concern for me because as a Warrior I understand two things:(1) it is the very nature of the calling to which we have been called that we will be thrust into dangerous, even life threatening situations to fight the enemies of our country and (2) that there could not possibly be a safer place to be than in the company of fellow Marines. In any case, that is the nature of the business and those who serve in this capacity have long since dealt with the realities of life in uniform.

There are, however, certain expectations, an unspoken trust within the ranks of those of us who serve and have served in this capacity. One of those is that we have a belief that as Americans, our leadership will not frivolously spend our blood on unworthy pursuit. To those of us who serve, let me be very clear to those of you who hold our lives in your hands; this means that the reason we may die can ultimately be defined as protecting homeland, family and fellow American lives (spelled US citizens). We also assume we will not be used as pawns in some personal vendetta or worse some career building scheme; that we will not be asked to spill our blood in a foreign land to defend the indefensible. We expect we will be able to do that for which we were trained; export violence with ferocity and drive our enemies to their knees with the ultimate goal of ending the conflict by forcing them to do our will. Such are the dreams and aspirations of the Warrior. Men like this seek to serve side by side with like-minded men prepared to meet their destiny on the field of battle; living a life of honor while testing personal courage in the forge of combat. Our nations Warriors have no other expectations, no visions of grandeur, no careers to bolster, no kingdoms to lord over, no sovereignty to subvert. These men just seek to serve their country.

Now that you have ever so basic an understanding of the intrinsic nature of the Warrior; I hope to encourage you to show them at least the dignity of thoughtful and painstaking decision-making when considering when and where to thrust them into the fires of hell. My demand is that you emphatically understand that this decision will have eternal consequences for the men involved and their families. I also expect this decision to be for the simple reason of defense of country and countrymen (again spelled United States Citizens).

If any part of you still understands that you were sent to Washington DC for the sole purpose of defending these shores and to defend the ‘life, liberty and pursuit of happiness’ of the citizens of this nation; and if you still believe you are first a servant of all, then you yet may possess the ability to understand the immorality of what I am about to share with you and the necessity to change this policy NOW.

President Obama has seen fit to replace the sitting ISAF commander with a General McChrystal (see Bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_A._McChrystal). Suffice it to say that Gen McChrystal’s understanding of the Warrior ethos is somewhat askew from the mainstream. Also let us cut to the chase and identify him more as a political mouthpiece than a field commander. Add to this the dubious addition of General James L. Jones (see bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Jones), who unlike McChrystal has actual combat experience but still shares the same ultimate goals and one world vision as both McChrystal and Obama. What you have here is an unholy trinity injecting their shared philosophy of ‘spare the civilians at all cost’ – even though those civilians are not US citizens and are in fact complicit in their own misfortune. The new ROE presented by McChrystal and under which operation Khanjar was mounted is nothing less than disgraceful, immoral and fatal for our Marines, Sailors and Soldiers on the ground. The Marines and Soldiers that are ‘holding’ territories of dubious worth like Now Zad and Golestan without reinforcement, denial of fire-support and refusal to allow them to hunt and kill the very enemy we are there to confront are nothing more than sitting ducks. Denying them even the ability to fight, which is their only purpose for existing, to defend themselves in a foreign land that sees them first as agents of the devil is detestable to the secular world and immoral to the rest of us. And for those of us with ‘vested interests’ thrust into that foreign land; it angers us. The links I have provided will give you some indication of the insanity of the current situation and the suicidal position this administration has placed these Warriors in. I admonish this administration and all those currently in public office whom we have entrusted with our security, well-being and the very lives and well-being of the best of us, our Warriors to start acting like you actually care or even understand the consequences of ludicrous decisions like this one. I then hold you responsible to actively seek to change this immoral policy to one that allows our Warriors the opportunity to do what they were trained to do; destroy our enemies and protect our citizenry.

http://www.militarytimes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1578049

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2009/07/07/no-excuse-marines-losing-legs-in-now-zad/

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2009/07/03/afghanistan-the-wtf-war/

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2009/07/05/calling-on-national-security-advisor-james-l-jones-to-resign/

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2009/07/26/follow-and-kill-every-single-taliban/

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2009/07/28/the-marines-must-hold-helmand/

To those who would suggest that COIN (counter insurgency) is complicated I say hog-wash. This has become the mantra of the one-world ideologues. This has become complicated because leadership has lost its way. It is not the responsibility of the leaders (servants) of this country to re-build a country that has not been destroyed by us nor does the leadership of this country have any intrinsic right to spill the blood of this country’s finest for this cause. I’ll lay it out for you; bad guys entered this country, unannounced and unwelcome and killed Americans on American soil. Bad guys continue to harass and threaten to kill Americans here at home and abroad. Bad guys continue to train in foreign lands and continue to plan to carry out these plans against sovereign American citizens. They have no rights or guarantee of protection under the Constitution of the United States because they are not United States citizens. They are not protected by the Geneva Convention because they don’t fight under any Nation’s Flag. We however, have the right – and responsibility, with historical and Biblical precedent to export violence to crush these Bad guys, wherever they may live and in whatever lair they may hide

For those of us who have served in uniform and for those of us who have family forced to serve under these immoral conditions the time to quietly observe and pray has ended. There is a new activist emerging; not like the cannabis induced flailing of the sixties and seventies but one with the discipline, training and tenacity of a Warrior. Those of us who have a history in this Warrior culture and a vested interest on the battlefield will be a lot more vocal from this point on. Those in this culture who do not yet know about this immoral ROE change will soon all know as well as the families of those who are imperiled by it. Those who have actively supported this policy of immorality or are not engaged enough to know of it; they will be re-introduced to your constituencies for their failings. Public service is precisely what it portends to be; service. If there are those among your number who have failed to remember that I can promise you we will make that known within our spheres of influence.

This letter is making its way through the halls of every national news agency as well as the local ones in Maine, as you read this. I have contacted your office by phone, e-mail and now letter to give you a chance to get out in front of it. Consider this a wake-up call.

John J. Bernard

1stSgt USMC ret

07/09/2009 08:01– relentlessly! If the civilian populations in those areas lack the intestinal fortitude to expel them from their midst or they quietly support them or they actively support them; they are not innocent and may well suffer ill consequences for their cowardice and their complicities.