Wonderful post. I feel the same about the Letter. I sobbed all the way through it and have since read it countless times. I guess we can’t post it here then?
Heh, I don’t think so. I had it on my Freep page as well as my personal home page when his grandson contacted me. I immediately removed it from my Freep page, but as I said above, I had a hard time getting it off of my home page.
For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed. This quote has always seemed Churchillian to me, so evocative of his Finest Hour speech...)
"Communists are that part of mankind which has recovered the power to live or die–to bear witness–for its faith. . . . The communist vision is the vision of Man without God. It is the vision of man’s mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man’s liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man’s destiny and reorganizing man’s life and the world" That defines in a nutshell why communism (and liberalism) are evil.