Every time I watch a World War II movie or documentary now, I have a sickening awareness of the difference between war then and the next war now.

First, there seems to be a prevailing idea, wishful thinking, that we don’t have to go to war now.

It says there should be a way around it through negotiation and compromise.

How did that work out with Chamberlain and Hitler?—nearly cost the world our freedom!

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Our experiences so far this century have further conditioned us where we can’t relate or imagine a commitment to military offensives that won wars in the past.

We are in awe when we see the shock of high-tech war conducted remotely.

Then we get weary of long-term perseverance ‘in the trenches’ to maintain the overnight gains of ‘shock and awe.”

We forget too soon when bad leaders horribly failed us in Benghazi and Afghanistan, because there are so many more disasters coming at us.

WW II warfare seems so far away, from another planet—indeed, like a movie, not real life—not like anything we might experience today.

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The United States was always the powerhouse that the world could fall back on, to stop the bad guys around the world.

This country is faltering now, severely, and accounts for my sickening feeling that we will not be repeating ‘coming to the rescue’ of other people threatened by historical bullies.

Why did I just say we will not rescue the oppressed and defeat the evil again?

Because we can’t.

Because the leaders don’t want to.

Because the leaders of America today are the bullies, the bad guys, the evil.

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And all the other bad actors around the world are boldly salivating over destroying America the Beautiful and devouring the remains.

There isn’t really anything left standing in their way.

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The remaining good guys, the remnant, will stand and sacrifice to resist all the evil mounted against our blessed freedom, as long as we can.

We will pay a high price for believing in the right and fighting for our families, just like freedom lovers and Christians have in the past.

Those who still believe in the God of the Bible like our founding fathers did, will again find the courage to pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

It remains true that there is “no greater love than for one to lay down his life for his brothers.”

Ultimately (the bottom line), “Do not fear him who is able to destroy the body, but not the soul; rather, fear Him Who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell.”