Many children growing up today are almost completely secularized. They have no hope of a hereafter. The man on the ground in the picture had hope that he was going to a better place. The children of today will only have the terror of an endless emptiness.
The secular humanist think that dying that way is somehow better.
I find it sad and a little scary that many, maybe most of the children raised today will not have the comfort of faith when we next go to war.
Many children growing up today are almost completely secularized. They have no hope of a hereafter. The man on the ground in the picture had hope that he was going to a better place. The children of today will only have the terror of an endless emptiness.
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I suspect many of the children of today will become Muslim.
When my son went to Kuwait before the invasion of Iraq (he was one of the first in), we gave him three beanie babies. One was an American Eagle, I forget what the second was, but the third was a beagle wearing a Kippah (Jewish head covering) with a Jewish star on it.
He knew who he was and what he faced if captured. He also learned that he was liberating the land of our ancestors, Ur and Babylon, as well as 25 million Moslems and Christians and Kurds, and Turks, etc.
If you can’t get some religious and national identify from schools, churches, etc, then you must get it at home. The “Greatest Generation” understood that, but it was reenforced in the schools and churches and synagogues back then.
PS: My father-in-law fought at Iwo Jima, among other island campaigns, with the only Army unit to land in an assault wave, 75th JASCO. Farm-born patriot and still one at 94.
It is the home that makes Americans, or did.